One of the most distressing letters I ever received was from a new friend, expressing anger that I had assumed an unwarranted sense of entitlement.
Some 62% of victims said phone calls were used by their tormentors; 51% reported being followed; 50% received unwelcome text messages; 50% suffered harassment through the use of a third party; 30% received email they considered harassment; 25% received distressing letters; and 25% of victims suffered break-ins.
It is "particularly distressing," the letter added, "considering that much of it took place when ICE was facing intense scrutiny over the quality of its medical care system and when agency personnel had assured Congress that problems had been addressed".
The point of my original letter was that there is a bigger picture here that is distressing to all of us who work with children.
As a longtime software engineer, I found the Dec. 30 letters in favor of replacing schoolchildren's textbooks with computerized equivalents distressing.
He was incapacitated—"confined two years & a half under distressing [surgical] operations & a most forlorn hope of cure," as he put it in his letter.
After publicising the distressing circumstances of my husband's death in an NHS hospital last October, I was deluged with letters.
In a letter handed to passengers at the hotel, BA apologised for the incident, saying: "We do not underestimate how distressing the experience has been for you and we have a dedicated team here to help you".
"As a doctor myself, who has worked in the Middle East, the issue is particularly poignant and distressing," says Abdallah Daar, a surgeon and professor of public health at the University of Toronto in Canada, and one of the letter's signers.
The weeks since then have been a distressing time to be an American voter stuck in the Russian Far East, a place so remote it can take a letter from home a month to get here.
