History of Stress
History of Stress
Since 1956, when stress was introduced into the American vernacular, the concept has been wholeheartedly embraced by popular culture. Today, the cultural connotations of stress often overpower its actual definition. Stress is an excuse, a state of mind, and a marketing tool -- and oh, it's also a physiological phenomenon.
Attention to stress tends to go in cycles, usually sparked by a scientific (or pseudoscientific) discovery. Medical professionals then spiraled into national obsessions, introduced Type A and B personalities, aerobics, meditation, the link between stress and heart disease.
Stress made headlines and drove movie characters to achieve or break down. It became a topic of songs. And, finally, it achieved that zenith of cultural significance -- it appeared on sitcoms!
Today stress is an everyday fact of life.
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