Stress Causes Illness

Psychology (Humanities), 1962

If you are predisposed to something, stress and bad life experiences will make you develop a disorder.

If might sound “medical”-ish. It’s not. In 1962, psychologist Paul Meehltried to explain schizophrenia. The resulting trend became referred to as the Diathesis–Stress Model, where the theory was the “equilibrium” of a person being disturbed would bring out a pre-existing condition.

• https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?&year_start=1950&year_end=2019&content=diathesis
• https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=diathesis
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_E._Meehl
• http://www.subjectpool.com/ed_teach/y4general_paper/meehl1962.pdf
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diathesis%E2%80%93stress_model