As this is repeated month after month, sometimes for years, it becomes chronic grief.
But if inflammation becomes chronic or turns against a person's own tissues, disease can result.
But if your good pal's griping becomes chronic, take him aside and make a gentle pitch.
If economic malaise becomes chronic, and employment and wages do not rise soon, populist parties may come closer to power in more European countries.
"Eight months, a year, it becomes chronic — it becomes like almost you're terminally ill," Mitchell said before the finals, in remarks recorded by The Sporting News.
"When pain becomes chronic, when it becomes persistent even after the tissue and injury have healed, then people are suffering from chronic pain," Dr. Mackey said.
Most persons recover within about two months; there may be relapses, however, and the disease becomes chronic in about 5 percent of the cases.
But the report goes on, "once loneliness becomes chronic, it is difficult to treat", and the result, as you might expect, is depression and drug and alcohol abuse.
Where it goes wrong is when loneliness becomes chronic, and the inflammatory response becomes chronic at the same time.Before civilisation intervened, such chronic loneliness would have been so rare (because isolated individuals are so vulnerable to predation) that evolution would have ignored it.
In the East, Miami looked to be as good as advertised, but if Dwyane Wade's sore foot becomes chronic trouble, the Heat's Big Three is reduced to maybe two and a half.
