The phrase "a distressing problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing an issue that causes anxiety, worry, or discomfort.
Example: "The community is facing a distressing problem with rising crime rates, which has left many residents feeling unsafe."
Alternatives: "a troubling issue" or "a concerning matter."
Eating disorders remain a distressing problem and increasingly sufferers include young men.
Urinary incontinence (UI) is a distressing problem for older people.
Lymphoedema is a distressing problem affecting many women after breast cancer surgery.
Chronic pain is a distressing problem for patients and is difficult, and sometimes distressing, to manage for clinicians [ 1- 4].
Monosymptomatic nocturnal enuresis (MNE), bedwetting without any other lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) [ 10], is a distressing problem that affects 6 10%% of 7-year-old children [ 5].
However, various hyperpigmented skin disorders result from the overproduction and subsequent accumulation of melanin, such as freckles, age spots, melanoderma, and senile lentigo, can be a distressing problem [ 2].
It is a very distressing problem.
Moreover, dysphagia is a common and distressing problem following neurological injury, and patients with swallowing problems following a stroke have a significantly higher morbidity and mortality compared with their nondysphagic peers (38).
She began to describe the terrible charley horses that Ong knew were a common and distressing problem among the elderly.
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov: NCT01189292 Postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV) is a common and distressing problem that affects 20-30% of surgical patients after general anesthesia [ 1].
In a study undertaken in Korea, anxiety about sexual performance was prevalent in cervical cancer survivors and dyspareunia was a major and distressing problem for women who received radiotherapy for cervical cancer [ 30].
