The watch is only the latest bit of technology for sending distress signals.
"There was a lot of distress and anxiety, perhaps a bit of humiliation," she said at the Hutton inquiry.
Do a search on Tumblr for "yahoo" and you get a stream of distress, interspersed with the occasional bit of helpless resignation, and some calls for activism.
"If [parents] have to adapt a little bit, and their child isn't experiencing other symptoms or signs of distress, I'm not going to make an issue out of that".
This, as he explains in his 1988 autobiography, Travels, was a cause of some distress, and a bit of bullying.
The 18-item scale measures anxiety (e.g., nervousness or shakiness inside), depression (e.g., feeling lonely), and general somatic symptoms (e.g., feeling weak in parts of your body) using a 5-point scale to measure the extent of distress experienced over the past week; the response options were: "not at all," "a little bit," "moderately," "quite a bit," and "extremely".
The IES-R consists of 22 items with five response alternatives of degree of distress (0 = not at all, 1 = a little, 2 = moderately, 3 = quite a bit, 4 = extremely).
These are no longer sources of distress.
They tussle over gradations of distress.
