Stress
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Terms noun - Status with respect to the relations between people or groups.
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- Arrested Development has a comedic example: The stress of having to testify at his father's trial causes him to enter "a light to no coma", or in layman's terms "a heavy nap".
Source: Angst Coma -
Lord Peter Wimsey has a lot of advantages, being a filthy rich aristocrat, but he also has a severe case of shell-shock (post-traumatic stress disorder, in modern terms).
Source: Defective Detective -
Psychology: Sigmund Freud deliberately used popular-language terms such as 'ich' and 'es' instead of science-y latinate forms to stress the basic and generally-accessible nature of his theory of mind.
Source: Gratuitous German
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