Practice question · Multiple choice
Biographical disruption names an illness forcing a person to re-evaluate their whole life story. Why is that treated as a distinct concept rather than as distress?
Hints
- Ask what has been lost besides health.
- Naming the specific loss suggests what would help.
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D. Because it identifies a specific loss to be rebuilt, not relieved
Why
Distress is a state; disruption names what broke. Treating the two as the same suggests reassurance, when the task is reconstructing a story about the future.
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