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Abandonment (emotional)
Emotional abandonment is a caregiver's withholding of affection, care, or support, distinct from physical absence. Linked to insecure attachment, abandonment schemas, rejection sensitivity, and adverse child development outcomes.
Cabin fever
Cabin fever is a colloquial term for restlessness, irritability, and low mood from prolonged confinement or isolation; not a formal diagnosis. Also an obsolete 1820 term for typhus; modern sense popularized by B. M. Bower's 1918 novel.
Cold pressor test
The cold pressor test is a laboratory pain-stress paradigm in which a hand is immersed in near-freezing water while investigators measure pain responses and cardiovascular reactions.
Compassion fatigue
Compassion fatigue, also called secondary traumatic stress, is emotional exhaustion and reduced empathy in caregivers exposed to others' suffering; coined by Joinson in 1992 and formalized by Figley in 1995, measured mainly by the ProQOL scale.
Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale
The Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC) is a proprietary 25-item self-report questionnaire measuring resilience, developed at Duke University by Kathryn Connor and Jonathan Davidson, published in 2003.
Coping
Coping: the thoughts and behaviors used to manage stressful demands, rooted in the Lazarus and Folkman tradition. Covers problem- and emotion-focused strategies and meta-analytic evidence for CBT, mindfulness, and resiliency training.
Crisis
A crisis is an unstable, dangerous event or period affecting an individual, a group, or society, often arriving abruptly with little warning; most crises are created by humans.
Dissociation (psychology)
Dissociation (psychology): disruption of the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, and behavior; rooted in Pierre Janet's trauma work; spans detachment and compartmentalization forms, dissociative disorders, and ongoing trauma-model debates.
Donald Crowhurst
Donald Crowhurst (1932–1969), British businessman and amateur sailor, faked his 1968–69 Golden Globe solo circumnavigation, drifted in the Atlantic aboard the Teignmouth Electron, and vanished; his abandoned trimaran was found 10 July 1969.
EFILism
EFILism is a negative utilitarian, antinatalist philosophy treating all sentient life as a harm, created by the YouTuber Gary Mosher, known as Inmendham, in 2011.
Escapism
Escapism: the tendency to evade one's situation through diversion and distraction via media, games, or consumption; introduced in 1950s media research, defined by Katz and Foulkes (1962), and split into self-suppression and self-expansion forms in the dualistic model.
Eustress
Eustress is a positive stress response to worthwhile tasks, contrasting with negative distress. It produces a sense of achievement and can facilitate growth and high performance.
Farmers' suicides in India
Farmers' suicides in India: deaths by suicide of farmers and agricultural labourers since the mid-1990s, concentrated in cotton states like Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka; about 300,000 recorded 1995–2012, driven by debt, crop failure, and drought.
Fight-or-flight response
Fight-or-flight response, also called the acute stress response, is the sympathetic-adrenal medullary reaction to threat coined by Walter Cannon in 1915, driven by epinephrine and norepinephrine release.
Foxconn suicides
Foxconn suicides: 2010 cluster of suicides and attempts, 13 completed and 5 attempted, among young migrant workers at Foxconn's (富士康) Shenzhen electronics factories, triggering government investigation, anti-suicide nets, wage rises, and Werther-effect research.
Future Shock
Future Shock, Alvin Toffler's 1970 Random House bestseller (also called Futureshock), argues that accelerating change causes psychological distress and information overload; sold about 7 million copies in over 50 countries.
Holmes and Rahe stress scale
The Holmes and Rahe stress scale, also known as the Social Readjustment Rating Scale, is a 43-item checklist ranking life events by weighted stress scores, published in 1967.
Homesickness
Homesickness is the distress and loss of functioning caused by separation from home and attachment figures such as parents, affecting children, students, soldiers, and refugees.
Livestreamed suicide
Livestreamed suicide is the real-time internet broadcast of a suicide or attempt, documented in cases like South Korea's BJ Imvely; studied for suicide contagion, and addressed through platform takedowns and live-streaming safety guidance.
Mental arithmetic task
The mental arithmetic task (MAT) is a laboratory stress paradigm using timed calculation, often subtraction, to elicit measurable physiological and psychological stress responses in experiments.
Mindfulness-based stress reduction
Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is an eight-week group program created by Jon Kabat-Zinn at UMass in 1979, combining secular meditation, mindful stretching, and daily home practice. Meta-analyses show moderate effects on stress, anxiety, and depression, and equivalence with CBT for depression and chronic pain.
Occupational burnout
Occupational burnout: WHO ICD-11 occupational phenomenon from chronic unmanaged workplace stress, with exhaustion, cynicism, reduced efficacy; debated versus depression; prevented by organizational interventions.
Perceived Stress Scale
The Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) is a self-report questionnaire measuring how stressful, unpredictable, and uncontrollable a person found their life in the past month, introduced by Sheldon Cohen and colleagues in 1983.
Psychological resilience
Psychological resilience, also known as emotional or stress resilience, is the process of adapting well to adversity through mental, emotional, and behavioral flexibility, and it can be learned and practiced rather than being a fixed trait.
Psychological stress
Psychological stress, also called stress, is the brain and body's response to challenges appraised as threatening. Covers fight-or-flight physiology, HPA axis, acute versus chronic stress, Selye's history, health outcomes, and coping.
Quarter-life crisis
A quarter-life crisis is a period of confusion and instability in emerging adulthood, ages 18 to 30, named in a 2001 book by Alexandra Robbins and Abby Wilner.
Stress management
Stress management is the use of techniques such as relaxation training, breathing exercises, and mindfulness to cope with stressful situations and with the stressed condition itself.
Suicide of Kurt Cobain
Suicide of Kurt Cobain: the Nirvana frontman, 27, shot himself in Seattle on April 5, 1994; ruled suicide by King County Medical Examiner, no Werther effect found, murder theories rejected by police.
Survivor guilt
Survivor guilt, also known as survivor's syndrome, is the guilt felt by people who survive a traumatic event in which others died or suffered more, first named in 1960s Holocaust literature.
Trier Social Stress Test
The Trier Social Stress Test (TSST) is a laboratory procedure that induces stress by having participants give a job-interview speech and do mental arithmetic before an unresponsive panel.