Martins's work and life have become the subject of books, films, dissertations, plays, and cheery tourist brochures that determinedly downplay the more distressing elements of her biography.
One of the most distressing elements of the worldwide migrant crisis is that people who have risked all for a better life should be held to ransom by smugglers.
Of the many distressing elements in the tale of Justin Berry ("Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid Online World," front page, Dec. 19), perhaps nothing is more disturbing than the thought of how many parents are naïve when it comes to their children and the Internet.
The intervention aims to support the expression of feelings and provide a framework for women to identify and work through distressing elements of childbirth.
The intervention aims to review birth expectations, work through distressing elements of childbirth, discuss strategies to develop support networks, affirm that negative childbirth events can be managed and develop a birth plan.
The intervention aims to review women's current expectations and feelings around fear of childbirth, support the expression of feelings, and provide a framework for women to identify and work through distressing elements of childbirth.
The BELIEF study aimed to review women's current expectations and feelings around fear of childbirth, support the expression of feelings, and provide a framework for women to identify and work through distressing elements of childbirth [ 4, 5].
To not be scrutinized as to whether or not we exist, but to be partners in the quest to examine what that existence currently looks like -- bleak, distressing, with elements of resilience -- and what it could become.
The adjective cartoonish, in this context, connotes no blood, unrealism, an element of humor no more distressing than the violence we are acquainted from cartoons.
The adjective cartoonish, in this context, connotes no blood, unrealism, an element of humour – no more distressing than the violence we are acquainted from cartoons.
