Soldiers – many of whom were clueless teenage conscripts who apparently thought they were part of a training exercise – were rounded up, beaten, stripped and, according to some reports, lynched (one particularly distressing image of a beheaded soldier emerged on Saturday morning on social media).
Mr. Bush's face reappears, and the pattern is repeated with a series of distressing images: a young mother feeling the forehead of her sick child and another child seeking consolation on an adult shoulder; a worker at home wiping his brow; smoke billowing from a plant; an elderly man and a middle-aged couple poring over their bills.
The cartoon is certainly shocking, using the single most distressing image of the refugee crisis – a dead child – to crack a joke.
One distressing image showed Jihad Misharawi, a Palestinian journalist who works for the BBC in Gaza, cradling the dead body of his 11-month-old son, Omar, at the al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City on Wednesday night.
"However well intentioned their motives may once have been, aid agencies have helped create the single, distressing image of Africa.
It shows the distressing image of Dhu being handcuffed and dragged from her cell less than two hours before her death, because she could no longer stand up.
But your article's more distressing image was the teacher informing her charges: "You don't really need to know anything more about the Battle of Britain, except that it was an air strike...
One such distressing image, which appeared on the front page of The Washington Post and was circulated by the armed wing of Hamas, shows Jihad Misharawi, a Palestinian journalist who works for the BBC in Gaza, cradling the dead body of his 11-month-old son, Omar.
The introduction to his speech was striking in part because of the juxtaposition of Mr. Ryan's six children and their families against the most enduring and distressing image from the bribery scandal: the death of the six children of a minister and his wife in a car crash caused by a truck driver who investigators believe had received his license by paying a bribe at a state licensing center.
Participants were presented with the statement: "usually when I experience the distressing image…" followed by five behavioural responses hypothesised to maintain health anxiety (Salkovskis & Warwick, 2001; Taylor & Asmundson, 2004).
For example, as in suicide where a 'flash-forward' of taking an overdose is re-scripted to the alternative outcome of disposing of the tablets (Holmes, Crane, Fennell, & Williams, 2007), the distressing image of being told you are dying could be re-scripted to one of being told that tests revealed no serious illness.
