South Africa has been much in the news in the last few weeks, for particularly distressing reasons.
Her skin has darkened, a common side effect of chemotherapy that African women find particularly distressing, for aesthetic reasons, but also because H.I.V. treatment does the same thing, and people assume they have AIDS.
That is one reason why distressing events, such as those from the ACE study, are associated with mental and physical health problems.
For patients undergoing joint replacement, chronic pain can be particularly distressing because the main reason for electing to undergo surgery is to gain relief from chronic joint pain.
In Conclusions we discuss some reasons for this seemingly distressing result.
A small share of the tax loss -- $25 billion -- would be offset by an increase in revenue, but the reason for the increase is distressing to lawmakers of both parties.
Idle chatter can be distressing for introverted individuals for the same reason they detest large parties: Deep conversations are important.
Our mediation analysis suggests that one reason why negative events are distressing in the short-term is because they induce ruminative thinking, which itself has depressogenic consequences (Lyubomirsky & Nolen-Hoeksema, 1993).
Craig Zobel's Compliance (2012, Soda) is a divisive drama that makes for profoundly distressing viewing, and not entirely for the reasons Zobel intended.
With a clever premise, well-plotted and told in spare, functional prose, She's Never Coming Back is certainly an uncomfortable, even distressing, read – but not for the right reasons.
