Table 7.

Distinctions between pairs of concepts

Items	Content analysisa	Linguistic extractsa	Linguistic features
Pain/Discomfort	Association to physical pain and not other type of pain [1–4]	I think pain is something that pains us and discomfort is that we don’t feel 100 % [3]	Choice of generic lexical items and indefinite pronouns
	To measure the degree of pain is very difficult [2]	For me pain is to feel some pain, right? Discomfort is to feel bothered with something but it’s not really pain [4]	High level of certainty
Anxiety/Depression	These are totally different things [1]	When I’m depressed I’m sad, I don’t feel like doing anything	First person discourse
	These are two distinct things [3]	I think there are various types of anxiety but there’s only one type of depression [2]	Choice of specific lexical items
	These are two different issues [4]	I think these are two distinct things [3, 4]	High level of certainty

^aNumbers between square brackets indicate individual respondents