Sentence examples for distressed to talk from inspiring English sources

On Friday, Mr. Orji's children were too distressed to talk.

At Soekarno-Hatta ainport in Jakarta, relatives arrived at the airport crisis centre, many too distressed to talk to the media.

Mr Mair's mother Mary Goodall was said to be too distressed to talk to the media.

The most common reason for refusal (in approximately 70% of cases) was that the relatives were too distressed to talk about the death.

They were also involved in group work to identify and make proposals on how to deal with some of the problems that we may encounter in our local context e.g. handover coinciding with ward rounds or emergency situations and patients too distressed to talk.

In distress and want to talk to someone?

Another woman also talked about her distress when asked to talk about a recent still birth.

In addition to the anxiety of getting help for her son, Cree was distressed about having no one to talk to who understood the crisis her family was experiencing.

You put your partner through a lot of distress when you refuse to talk".

All participants were given a leaflet of mental health and intimate partner violence (IPV) related help resources; researchers were available to talk to participants distressed by the survey or wanting to seek help for IPV.

(As Claridge notes in a telling aside, Post didn't like to talk about "distressing matters, or even think about them much").