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by Moodles 2950 days ago
I read recently that stress isn't actually related to mortality as much as people think. Similar to this post, it showed that people who are stressed, and additionally think that stress is bad for them, are more likely to die. Whereas people who felt stress and thought it was a good thing, i.e, their body calling them to action, were actually pretty much okay.
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That sounds like people might be experiencing different things and calling it stress. For example one person might think stress and pressure are the same thing, and they would be physically healthy. Another person might only call themselves stressed when they started experiencing physical symptoms.