Americans are generous people. We all like the idea of helping families in need. We volunteer, make charitable clothing donations and give what money we can. When we cannot bring our donations to a non-profit, we find charities that will pick up donations. What we may not realize is all of our good deeds do a lot to help us as well. Here are some ways when we work on helping families in need, we are actually helping ourselves as well. Giving back reduces our stress level. When researchers looked at links between volunteering and hypertension, they found that people…