What the Semantic Visions analysis reveals is quite compelling or distressing, depending upon your perspective.
Its most distressing aspect, from a staff perspective, was that some of the stories behind the headlines were more or less true.
"It's distressing for me from a democratic perspective that this is how we police people, this is how we run this place," said Cauchi.
What's more distressing, from both an economic and a social perspective, is that a lot of people who do muster the courage still won't get the right kind of treatment.
In some cases, a distressing event gives rise to a more optimistic perspective; in "Smash," a serious auto accident makes an unhappily married man feel "finer than fine" about his cramped existence.
Even the lone female perspective of My Curse reveals only her distressing inability to be anything other than entirely submissive, further incriminating the male voice of the album.
This study examined the ability of an integrated training in self-distancing and perspective broadening (SD-PB) with respect to distressing experiences to deliver such benefits in individuals with a history of recurrent depression (≥3 prior episodes), currently in remission.
Individual interviews were offered as well as group discussion to gain insider perspectives of issues that could be potentially distressing as well as detailed understandings of how local services functioned, and frames of reference for visual function loss [ 16].
One participant highlighted that the stress attributed to menopause symptoms could lead to a downward spiral of distressing life circumstances and reduced quality of life, creating a negative perspective of the experience.
The results of these transmogrifications are most often banal or repetitive or psychically distressing: another bondage-and-submission best-seller or Jane Austen novel told from the perspective of the sensitive zombie that lived in the basement.
These cost-effectiveness analyses, while giving an insight into the economic consequences from a payer perspective, nevertheless overlook patients' willingness to pay for an improved quality of life and relief from a distressing side effect of chemotherapy.
