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I think you are right with chronic vs immediate stressors. Economic anxiety could be the big one, and people don’t see the end of the tunnel.

• nradov 1y ago
  Medieval peasants didn't see the end of the tunnel either. I'm skeptical that the type and quantity of stress is really worse now.
  • navane 1y ago
    At least they knew that this was temporal but heaven would be eternal. There was a point to things. When you stand for nothing you fall for everything. There's no story left in which we play.
  • ratmeadow 1y ago
    Medieval peasantry times may already be well into the "abstract chronic stress" period. Humans have been around a while.