For example, monitoring people with dementia using commercially available devices that measure heart rate, breathing rate, lung volume, step count, and activity level could be used to predict episodic behavioral and psychological symptoms before they become distressing or disruptive.
Where participants became distressed or disclosed distressing experiences, the researcher offered to terminate the interview and refer them to a support organisation or to the TB case worker.
The turn of events becomes genuinely distressing.
It's peaceful at first, as flowers and abstract patterns pass over a human face, but it becomes increasingly distressing throughout.
The first two sets became almost distressing to watch.
A&E departments become very "distressing" places to be, with binge drinkers and drug users taking out their aggression on staff, she says.
I actually had to put Lola Rose down several times when it became too distressing, and think merry thoughts of brownies and pixie rings before returning to it.
Eventually, Nazism became seriously distressing to him, with the exile and death of his Jewish friend and collaborator Zweig, whose name he insisted on printing on the libretto of the opera they made together, Die schweigsame Frau.
In the six weeks before the police knocked on my door, my memories of the crush and of the carnage in the gym, where the injured were traken, had become so distressing they were putting my sanity at risk.
