That said, I’m not going for poetics or linguistic beauty — I’m looking for an easily-used technical term.
I’m not particularly attached to “secondary stressors” — I just want a precise phrase for the phenomenon. Other people in the thread proposed other ones, EX “worrying about worrying” (which is close but I think again not as precise).
That’s one of my favorite essays, incidentally.
That said, I’m not going for poetics or linguistic beauty — I’m looking for an easily-used technical term.
I’m not particularly attached to “secondary stressors” — I just want a precise phrase for the phenomenon. Other people in the thread proposed other ones, EX “worrying about worrying” (which is close but I think again not as precise).