"distress of not" can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe the feeling of being distressed or troubled by something that is lacking or absent. Here is an example: "The students felt distress of not having access to proper resources for their research project." In this sentence, "distress of not" expresses the feeling of being troubled or distressed by the fact that the students do not have the necessary resources for their project.
While Tarek praised the humanity of the support staff at the child friendly space to Mr Bloom, he also expressed his deep distress and despair of not knowing what the future holds for him.
The DASS is a quantitative measure of distress, not a categorical measure of clinical diagnoses.
In an earlier study, Hobfoll et al. showed, in contrast to our results, that a sum-score of exposures to the WTC terrorist attacks was independently related to depression (as an indicator of distress), but not to symptoms of PTSD [ 29].
A postponement of death (reduction of distress) was not observed.
She says that she began her project expecting to channel the "distress" in the experience of not being able to see.
The present study proposed a broader classification for postnatal distress, to include measures of not only depression, but of anxiety and stress as well.
The patients selected needed to fulfill the following criteria: (a) acute abdominal pathology, (b) respiratory insufficiency with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) criteria of not more than 3 days in duration, and (c) admission to the ICU.
Several of the identified aspects of distress are not included in the EORTC QLQ-C30 [ 8] or the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale [ 9].
This suggestion is partly supported by the current study, as females reported higher overall distress; however, looking at the different dimensions of distress, we found that females are more distressed than males only in terms of psychological distress and not in terms of somatic distress.
Present results support the hypotheses of stress-sensitive periods during development and show that a 'dose'-effect, a relationship between the amount of stressful experiences and severity of distress, is not restricted to traumatic experiences and to PTSD.
