Voorbeelden van distress

• He seems to be quite unaware of other people's distress.

• It was terrible for her to see her child in such distress.

• Terry is always willing to help out a lady in distress!

• The animal was clearly in distress, so we called the vet immediately.

• The old lady's distress at the news could have brought on a heart attack.

• Anxious/resistant attachment is characterized by difficulty settling with the caregiver when distressed, often tinged with anger.

• The daily coherence rating reflected the consistency of a child's attachment behaviors each day across the three distressing situations in the diary.

• The story remains as distressing for the nineteenth-century households.

• We can all cite distressing examples of the failures of systems and of workers to respond in a timely and appropriate way.

• According to a perception-action theory of empathy, the subject is distressed because the state of the object is imparted to him directly.

• Do they find it distressing when art museums fail to hang pictures of brains on their walls?

• The offence is not designed to penalise the expressions of opinion that happen to be disagreeable, distasteful, or even offensive, annoying or distressing.

• The general practitioner is a first port of call for people with all manner of distressing circumstances.

• Because such potentially distressing events are predictable, but unavoidable, they are an ideal focus for an investigation of coping behaviours.

• The considerable costs of her earlier treatment had been futile, distressing, and wasteful.

• Fears about travel were not only distressing but were also the main factor limiting the children's social activities and relationships with friends.

• The presence of auditory hallucinations in non-help-seeking community samples emphasizes that the experience of voices per se may not or may not be distressing.

• I knew how to respond to the statements distressed patients frequently say when confronted with difficult circumstances.

• Even so, over one third of patients were depressed and one out of four carers was distressed.

• Participants (patients and controls) were not distressed when listening to the distorted or alien feedback, but usually described it as an unusual experience.