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Stress names a kind of grief unique to the modern period, a grief perpetually unresolved, evoked by the rapid and relentless changes characteristic of modernity. Stress: The nature and history of engineered grief. Michael P. Sipiora. Corresponding Author. Psychology Department, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh , PA.
During the dark days surrounding the Second World War, the notion of stress emerged from the background of collective perception and discourse. The ground was ready to produce such a growth.
However, these emotions had become issues that humans across the planet were encountering. The atrocities of the World War II invaded the psyche of every adult in the world. It created a new way of thinking.
Kugelmann believed that this type of thinking did not exist before the Second World War. If this is the case and stress is here to stay, then how do we manage it in our lives?
Stress symptoms have become a reality for us in our culture. The movies we watch, the music we listen to and every job we perform are catalysts for this emotion.
Although some may think that stress had just shown up in the past century, there is no doubt that it has been around for some time. As far back as the first century when Christ was walking the earth with his disciples, it was recorded in the New Testament that his disciples were dealing with stress. Stress symptoms and fatigue have been in existence long before the first and second World Wars. The need to find peace and rest have been a challenge for humanity since creation. The advice of Jesus in Mark 6: Not as the world gives do I give to you.
Past populations have been no less stressed by analogous cocktails of warfare, epidemic disease, unemployment, and poverty.
Since at least the mid-nineteenth century, these narratives of distress have been bound together not primarily by mutual understandings and shared experiences of stress, but by the apocalyptic fear that stress is the inevitable result of the psychological pressures generated by the unfettered growth of industrial and technological capitalism. National Center for Biotechnology Information , U.
In the s, the left-wing American writer Alvin Toffler b. The Nature and History of Engineered Grief. Is there a good definition of stress management? The University of Sydney. The University of Melbourne Library. Four years later, the Whitehall II study highlighted the role of stress in shaping sickness patterns amongst civil servants.
Author manuscript; available in PMC Jan The publisher's final edited version of this article is available at Lancet. Further reading Becker Dana. One Nation under Stress: The Trouble with Stress as an Idea.
Oxford University Press; Oxford: The Age of Stress: Science and the Search for Stability. The Nature and History of Engineered Grief.
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