The phrase "a distressing event that" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing a specific incident or occurrence that causes distress or emotional pain.
Example: "The report detailed a distressing event that left the community in shock and mourning."
Alternatives: "a troubling incident that" or "a painful occurrence that".
Aspinall and Goodman suggested that if active drugs are available, placebo-controlled trials are unethical because PONV is a very disturbing and distressing event that can occur after laparoscopic surgery [ 20].
The situation concerning McDyess is just the latest in a series of distressing events that have plagued the Knicks recently.
Breuer and Freud believed that the specific motivation for these neurotic symptoms lay in the patient's desire to obliterate from memory profoundly distressing events that were incompatible with the patient's moral standards and therefore in conflict with them.
Through their work midwives may experience distressing events that fulfil criteria for trauma.
Periods of hypoglycemia are distressing events that mostly occur with tight glycemic regimens and treatments increasing insulin levels independently of blood glucose levels.
For this purpose, patients are taught how to make willing contact with and tolerate the experience of pain or other distressing events that might appear, without attempts to control them [ 19].
"It's about the portfolio of distressing events that you build up over years and years, and I think that is an important part that people are missing".
Administered straight after a distressing event, the nitrous oxide is thought to disrupt a process that helps permanent memories to form.
It feels natural to brood and ruminate over a distressing event, memory, or worry, to stew over an angering or upsetting thought that keeps popping into our heads.
Thus, these results suggest that abstract rumination may be particularly unconstructive following exposure to a distressing event.
