Stress and distress
Whilst listening to The Listening Project on the radio this morning, the wonderful Fi Glover conversed with a man who described the difference between ‘stress’ as something normal and ‘distress’ as something pathological. They are at root the same word but describe two very different levels of experience. Recently a man who I’d known since we were lads playing football together on the field next to The Firth Moor pub quite reasonably committed suicide after a series of terrible events. I wish I’d understood his distress!