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Research on illness behaviour has indicated that the shared images and expectations of people are often determined to a great degree by labels that are used in either describing symptoms or in applying diagnostic labels. For instance, the term “stress”, which has become a major topic in both research and clinical practice, owes its popularity to its excess meaning. Today, it is often said that we live in an era of stress. Everything is stress. However, only 20 years ago we were all living in the era of anxiety. There is a psychologically interesting difference between the two words which, perhaps, can account for the transition from anxiety to stress.
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Breznitz, S. (1986). Are There Coping Strategies?. In: McHugh, S., Vallis, T.M. (eds) Illness Behavior. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5257-0_24
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