Does Tension Cause High Blood Pressure?

Although this is a direct question the answer to this is both Yes and No! When the person is stressed or is in tension there is a sudden increase in the BP. Although this phenomenon is temporary it does not lead to sustained high bp in that person. Once you are cool and the root cause for that tension vanishes your BP is back to normal. Hence tension does create high blood pressure temporarily and it goes away as you are free from tension. A sudden spike in blood pressure is not going to affect you much.

On the contrary if the person is always under stress most of the time there are chances that the person's blood pressure will remain high for some duration and it is likely to remain in that higher value. Leading a stressful life most of the time leads to high blood pressure. That is why among the people those who work in high stress environment like air-traffic controllers have high BP. If you are in situation where you have no control over the situation but have lots of responsibilities piled up then you might end up with high BP.

As far as possible come out of the stressful environment as soon as you can. If your job is the main reason for the high stress in your life then you have to find some other means to tackle that high stress environment in your workplace. Deep breathing exercises might come to your help in such situations. This is a simple exercise to reduce you high blood pressure. Get a guide who can help you in breathing exercises. If you do these breathing exercises for about 15 minutes a day you will find that your tension and stress goes off and your high blood pressure also drops down subsequently.