Some even had difficulty acknowledging the pregnancy to themselves, and the prospect of being reassured by other people that everything would be O.K. this time made it more difficult to tell others about the pregnancy.
The New York Times continues to have difficulty acknowledging the undeniable success of the President's decision to surge an additional 30,000 troops into Iraq.
They need people who will listen to what they are saying about their feelings, especially negative feelings, that they evidently seem to have difficulty acknowledging and sharing with one another behind all those struggling beards and manly tattoos.
Physicians may have difficulty acknowledging personal errors because they can be experienced as personal defeats and thus confirm that physicians are vulnerable [ 20, 24].
They might have difficulties acknowledging their mental illness and admitting to children and professionals that they indeed have problems.
A review of the qualitative literature by Funk et al. described how many carers express reluctance with or have difficulties acknowledging and disclosing their own needs to formal providers and asking for help [ 17].
(Likewise on abortion, of course, where the press has difficulty even acknowledging that pro-life women exist).
Suicidal persons can also have difficulty fully acknowledging the finality of their death, believing that (assuming there is no afterlife) they will somehow continue to be subjects of conscious experience after they die.
But, he said, 10percentt of the patients had substantial difficulty acknowledging the nature and severity of their disease, a problem that could call their decision-making capacity into question.
Religious/philosophical traditions that emphasize continuity, connectedness and — not coincidentally — compassion have little difficulty acknowledging the fundamental unity of all living things, by contrast with the exclusivist Western perspective.
