Is your high blood pressure making you neurotic?

High blood pressure and neuroticism appear to play off one another; therefore, controlling one's blood pressure may help to reduce neurotic behaviours. — AFP

Diastolic blood pressure – the lower of the two numbers in a blood pressure reading – is highly likely to cause neurotic personality trait, finds research published in the open access journal General Psychiatry.

And keeping it under control can help curb neurotic behaviours, anxiety, and heart and circulatory diseases, conclude the researchers.