What Did Lazarus Mean When He Wrote of the Daily

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Essay

What did Lazarus mean when he wrote of the daily hassles and uplifts of life?

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Definitions:

Somatoform Disorders

A group of psychological disorders in which patients experience physical symptoms that have no identifiable physical cause.

Hypochondriasis

A psychological disorder wherein an individual is excessively worried about having a serious illness, often misinterpreting normal bodily functions as symptoms of serious conditions.

Conversion Disorder

A mental condition in which a person experiences physical neurological symptoms, such as blindness or paralysis, without a physical cause, believed to stem from emotional conflict.

Catatonic Schizophrenia

A subtype of schizophrenia characterized by significant motor disturbances, ranging from physical immobility to excessive motor activity, and often accompanied by other symptoms such as echolalia or echopraxia.