Anxiety and depression are the top predicaments for which patients seek mental health treatment; schizophrenia is at the bottom of the list.
In a sense it is the reverse of the predicament in which church and state found themselves in the 17th century.
Ever since the night Naim attended Taha's lecture as a young law student, he has believed that Muslims must find a way out of the predicament in which their own history has placed them — if not by accepting Taha's vision, then by working toward another.
Moreover they do this from a distinctively first-personal point of view, one that is defined in terms of a practical predicament in which they find ourselves (either individually or collectively people sometimes reason jointly about what they should do together).
But it also put Wisconsin in its current predicament, in which it is one of potentially dozens of states petitioning the Department of Transportation for a chunk of the $2.4 billion that the state of Florida gave up when its governor, Rick Scott, rejected high-speed rail.
The chairman of the university's board of trustees said he & his colleagues had a "fiduciary duty" to entertain such an offer in view of the financial predicament in which the school found itself after a severe decline in enrollment & a long faculty strike.
When he first wakes up, the fifty-six-year-old writer — who, under the pseudonym Boris Akunin, is one of Russia's most widely read contemporary authors — might think of a new predicament in which to ensnare his popular hero, Erast Fandorin, the dashing nineteenth-century detective who can see into people's souls and always wins at games of chance.
Though the tempest was short-lived, it left fresh tragedy in its wake and provided a bitter reminder of the helpless predicament in which Haiti's displaced continue to live.
Abbas' acceptance of responsibility for the predicament in which both sides find themselves is remarkable, if for no other reason than because no other Palestinian leader has ever acknowledged it as a mistake.
That is not to say that the rational mind is bad (perhaps one day science will tell us everything about how and why our world exists – here's hoping!), or that the flashes of insight which can come about through meditation necessarily tell us anything conclusive about the predicament of life in which we find ourselves.
The economic predicament of black men, which disconnects them from their children, threatens to ripple across families and generations.
