The phrase "afflicted when" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a condition or state that occurs at a specific time or under certain circumstances.
Example: "She felt afflicted when the news of the tragedy reached her."
Alternatives: "suffering when" or "troubled when".
Cosimo was deeply afflicted when his wife, two of his daughters, and two of his sons all died within six years (1557 62); his enemies exploited these misfortunes to spread calumnies against the dynasty.
In Far from Heaven (2002), Haynes re-created the style of a Douglas Sirk melodrama to tell the tale of a seemingly perfect married couple in 1950s suburbia whose relationship is afflicted when the husband (Dennis Quaid) reveals to his wife (Moore) that he has been struggling with homosexuality.
Officials are also searching for links to a sarin poisoning last year in Matsumoto city in Nagano prefecture northwest of Tokyo, where seven people were killed and more than 200 afflicted when the deadly gas was released in a neighborhood.
Company directors were haunted by the public relations disaster that afflicted Cunard when the QE2 began its first cruise of the 1994 season before refitting work was completed.
The "physically ill" feeling that apparently afflicted him when contemplating the court's ruling against the UK's blanket ban on prisoners' voting seemed to have abated.
Then I glance at the culture pages, but not with the Anglophilia that afflicted me when I was an English major in college.
It has you watching this while outdoors at a beachside bar with a bunch of other similarly afflicted guys when more well-adjusted folks were taking in Vitamin D on their chaise lounges and listening to the idyllic crash of the surf.
Also as expected, for all spinal regions, women were most often afflicted, both when reporting on number of painful areas and on the number of days with pain.
Depression, according to Rowe, is essentially a defence against change, an emotional paralysis that afflicts us when we are unable to adapt.
I mention this incident because it illustrates the neurotic gabbiness that afflicts parents when it comes time to send their children to college.
Meanwhile, Arsene Wenger had one of his famous attacks of myopia that always seems to afflict him when one of his players is accused of something controversial.
