"distressing about" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to express someone's feelings of worry, anxiety, or concern over a particular situation or event. Example: She was still distressing about the results of her medical tests, unable to sleep or focus on anything else.
What's distressing about this news is that the commissioners got off to a good start.
What's so distressing about this situation is that there is no obvious authority that one can appeal to or challenge about what has happened.
"But there is something particularly distressing about the nice round figure of $100,000 and the fact that it directly lined Mr. Carter's pocket".
But there's also something dark and distressing about their self-imposed isolation and their immediate response to the geologists' offers of modern amenities (like bread): "We are not allowed that".
There was something distressing about the way Yass Hakoshima swept in and out of the Ailey Citigroup Theater on Thursday night — if only because it was a one-night appearance.
Co-adapted by Keneally and Schepisi, the film takes on a heightened impact: there is something utterly distressing about seeing the grisly crimes at the heart of it acted out on screen.
Carl Safina has partly solved that problem — by assembling a dossier of intriguing information about sea turtle biology and distressing facts about what humans have done to push these creatures toward extinction.
They are distressing to read about and they are very serious.
Many East Africans, for instance, hold that the ability not to talk about distressing experiences is a sign of maturity.
This essay film, by Noël Burch and Allan Sekula, is beautiful to look at and distressing to think about, as it offers an unsparing account of exploited labor on land and sea.
(1995) demonstrated that verbally worrying about a distressing video was associated with a greater decrease in self-reported anxiety compared to imagery.
