Mr. Dodd explained: "One of the difficulties is to talk about it and not talk about the president at the same time.
This seems likely — although it seems likely, too, that both his supporters and his detractors will run into difficulties when they try to talk about the link between his race and his prominence.
"Reach out to friends and fellow students, because they will be going through the same things," says Bonwick. "The key to coping with the difficulties of university is to talk about them.
While stigma was not specifically named, women spoke about the emotional difficulties they faced having to talk about their infertility to others; and the issue of having pregnant friends and/or family who seemed to have no difficulty in achieving a pregnancy, which was a constant reminder of their own inability to conceive.
The difficulty of knowing how to talk about rape is not limited to those who have experienced it, she wrote.
With difficulty, I prodded her to talk about herself, about her music (most of which I didn't know) and about her childhood.
Being able to talk about difficulties is essential, especially since cuts to children's mental health services mean schools are taking an ever greater role in offering support.
Mr. Cowen declined to talk about difficulties during the Bush administration, but he said he looked forward to working with President Obama.
He never liked to talk about difficulties of any kind, so I had to ask my grandmother what made him join the military at 18 — first the Army, then the Air Force — and remain there for 46 years.
The difficulties begin when we begin to talk about replacement: a robot that is given the hard data of a soccer game and is then capable, based on a series of parameters, to write a story, could replace a journalist.
