New study investigates whether we think about anxiety and depression differently now PLOSONE
]. A similar convergence was evident in the general corpus, albeit appearing later. ‘Depression’ became the top collocate of ‘anxiety’ in the 2000s and ‘anxiety’ became its top collocate in the 2010s. The two concepts have clearly become a tightly bound pair in both the academic and general discourse.
Although our findings do not support the predicted dilution of the meaning of ‘anxiety’ or ‘depression’, they are consistent with an increased pathologizing of these concepts over recent decades. Whereas ‘anxiety’ and ‘depression’ can refer to ordinary affective states, rather than to clinical conditions, and–judging from the collocates–largely did so in the 1970s and 1980s, the strong trend in both psychological and general discourse has been to place a clinical frame around them.
The present research inevitably has limitations and weaknesses. Despite the breadth and size of the two text corpora, it is possible that unrelated historical changes in their composition might distort the severity trends we examined in our hypothesis tests .
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