The phrase "emotional affliction" is correct and usable in written English.
It refers to a strong or persistent negative emotion that causes distress or suffering. One can use this phrase in a variety of contexts, such as discussing mental health, personal struggles, or emotional difficulties. For example: - "She sought therapy to help cope with her emotional afflictions." - "His chronic anxiety is just one of his many emotional afflictions." - "The loss of her job caused a great emotional affliction that she struggled to overcome." - "With each therapy session, she felt a little more in control of her emotional afflictions."
When he drank too much, gave vent to his rage or frequently became ill, she attributed it to the pressure of his work and not to a serious emotional affliction that had not yet been identified.
Every now and then, somebody will gesture toward this great unspoken, alluding to how everything is different "since then," or noting that "we are all" subject to the same vague emotional affliction.
He similarly writes that Salinger "had suffered from depression for years, perhaps throughout his entire life, and was at times afflicted by episodes so intense that he could not relate to others," but he does not really delve into its prewar sources or the reasons Salinger turned to religion as a path to overcoming this emotional affliction.
No more body comparison and emotional affliction.
He claims that "for most of my early twenties I was nothing more than a grab bag of various insecurities and emotional afflictions".
This might be translated to mean that Bill Henrickson didn't seem to have the right to all of the sex he was getting — not the way Don Draper, by virtue of his emotional afflictions, has the right on "Mad Men".
In the end he admits that the game "has ruined every relationship I've ever had in my life but one," his current girlfriend being the exception, though the cause-and-effect remains vague: "For most of my early 20's I was nothing more than a grab bag of various insecurities and emotional afflictions".
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But the willingness to explore with patience and empathy the actual experience of what people undergo, no matter how horrific, is indispensable in healing the emotional afflictions that haunt human beings.
Hudgins's method is straightforward: in chapters that read like free-standing essays, he confesses his love for a certain vein of inappropriate humor, furnishes several examples and ruminates on their therapeutic value in helping him to overcome some affliction (emotional, social, filial).
The third act, based around trying to diagnose her affliction, is lacking in the emotional involvement and suspense that's needed to make it soar.
