Howe predicted disaster, feeling that a Republican challenger was sure to beat Roosevelt in what was expected to be nationally a Republican year.
The new proposed diagnosis includes a note that reads, in part, "The normal and expected response to an event involving significant loss (e.g., bereavement, financial ruin, natural disaster), including feelings of intense sadness, rumination about the loss, insomnia, poor appetite and weight loss, may resemble a depressive episode," but, absent certain other symptoms, may not be.
"It's hard to do, scary to do, to give up control and let things go," she said, "one night feeling secure, the next night everything's a total disaster and feeling you're the worst thing in the world".
This, I realized, was the true disaster: my feeling inconveniently obliged to care about the world's future problems in the present.
And, partly because the international media had predicted that the Olympics would be an outright disaster, the feeling among some in Brazil continues to be that the Games, at least as a sporting event, have actually exceeded expectations.
We in this House often face disasters with feelings of hopelessness, of powerlessness; we wonder what can we do about this and we cannot necessarily think of anything.
For Maria, a woman in her thirties who says she works on the radio, the MH17 disaster has invoked "feelings of a coming apocalypse.
However, participants also relayed positive outcomes stemming from their shared experiences during and after the disaster, including strong feelings of social cohesion and optimism that persisted well beyond the short-term "honeymoon phase" predicted by the literature.
They and knuckleballers of the past like Charlie Hough talk about how, because the pitch is so hard to control, every outing is a potential disaster, and the feeling of a career in danger of collapse is constant.
If the war doesn't turn into a disaster, there is feeling of relief that we are back to being the old Israelis in the sense of thinking a bit before we act".
