For Hong Kong psychoanalyst Diego Busiol, the word “stress” does not adequately reflect the body and mind’s reaction to a perceived pressure.
“The term tends to flatten complex human phenomena into something overly generic,” he says. “It’s much more nuanced than that. It affects people differently.”
He gives an example: “You can have two managers with identical workloads: one develops chronic insomnia, the other thrives. The difference lies not in the pressure itself, but in each person’s…
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