carlspanks:
and I can literally feel my BP rising,
What does "psychological damage" have to do with getting a fill up at British Petroleum?
All kidding aside, I don't notice my blood pressure rising as much as I get invested in a character's development and journey. If there's any pressure, it's seeing bad plot devices used which undersell the character's intelligence (and mine), but the pressure is going down instead of up, which follows my level of interest. Not saying every character has to be a rocket scientist, just agonizing over the shortcuts sometimes taken to get a character to a certain state.