Some studies suggest that moving frequently between work and benefits may have a 'scarring' effect, because individuals who spend more than a few weeks unemployed have been shown to experience chronic difficulty in re-establishing themselves in the labour market (Arulampalam, 2001).
The second crucial point in Dr. Brown's book is that many people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder appear to have chronic difficulty with the brain's executive functions, a term that encompasses short-term memory, planning and staying focused on a task without being distracted by emotional impulses.
"The government produces lazy people, then lazy parents produce lazy children," fumed Mr. Yurchenko, noting the chronic difficulty of finding Russian farmhands.
Although entrepreneurs will always complain first about the chronic difficulty of raising money, the smart ones know that talent is the more important battle to win, because money follows talent.
Pauleta had made enough space to avoid Lilian Thuram before hitting the side-net after 53 minutes, but Portugal's chronic difficulty in finding players at the centre of attack was being illustrated again.
They have chronic difficulty in focusing on many important tasks of daily life, yet they can focus very well on a few tasks that hold strong personal interest for them.
And that's a lot of problems, observes the author, Frank Hilton, including Baudelaire's "inability to manage his financial affairs, his unsatisfactory relationships, his bad health, his guignon" -- the demonic misfortune he believed plagued him -- and, most important, his "chronic difficulty in getting down to any prolonged creative work".
Nearly 15% of the 4,956 participants without symptoms of insomnia at baseline reported chronic difficulty falling asleep or early morning arousal at follow-up, suggesting an annual incidence rate of approximately 5%.
Some commentators argue that many postdocs' chronic difficulty finding permanent academic positions indicates that the nation's need to train new scientists and engineers has been exaggerated.
That developmental history will reveal a story of an adult who has chronic difficulties following through on reasonable objectives, who makes the same mistakes repeatedly, who fails to live up to potential, or who simply has trouble being able to do what he wants or needs to do, said Ramsay.
Sex, life events, chronic difficulties and to a certain extent age were found to be risk factors for depression in the studied community.
