Instead, she was able to articulate her fears about feeling such agonizing pain.
I stopped being able to articulate my needs, and my new care assistants became increasingly bewildered with their lack of instruction.
Once able to articulate their needs, toddlers do so on an almost continual basis - water, story, bathroom, kiss, bad dream - repeated until you fall asleep on the bed beside them.
This struck me twice this week: first, last Wednesday morning listening to the Rev John Bell giving his Thought for the Day on Radio Four, I was reminded how it is often those of devout faith who are best able to articulate what needs to be said about the pressing social issues of our time.
Once you're able to articulate your needs, emotional freedom in your relationships is possible.
Higher educated patients that chose a GP for their initial contact (either as personal choice or due to organisational enforcement, as in countries with a gate keeping system) are usually better able to articulate their needs for the specialist and have greater assertiveness regarding being referred to one[ 28, 29], leading to a higher number of referrals.
(Patient 3, Muslim woman with cancer, stage 2 interview) In contrast we found that recent migrants and those with poor English language skills, no family advocate, and dying of non-malignant diseases were less able to articulate their needs and negotiate care options and therefore overcome the barriers identified.
Two others felt that people with psychosocial disability would not be able to articulate their needs, and that their views would be better represented by their families or others who care for them: Respondent (R): …the mental illness people, we cannot talk with them.
Additionally, this study found that patients should be able to articulate their preferences, needs and expectations in order to translate the new information to their own context and environments.
