That which afflicts the lay narcissist, the egomaniac in the street, is quite different from the impressive baggage borne by a professional narcissist.
In another room, with a menagerie of afflicted creatures, Tapka lay in traction, connected to a blinking machine by a series of tubes.
How do you explain to children the subtleness of depression and how it lies and badgers until finally the afflicted take the only method of control they feel available and act in the most final way?
The secretary was lying on a chaise longue, Holbrooke recalled, afflicted with a bout of stress-related gout.
Prior to the genocides in the countries of Rwanda and Burundi, which lie across the border from Kagera, HIV infection only afflicted 2.8percentt of this stable, religious community.
Women are afflicted disproportionally by online abuse, with trolls apparently lying in wait for those whose online speech is perceived as being too outspoken.
In the end, she's still "riddled with guilt like rot or cancer, but like an afflicted person I seem not always to know where my affliction lies".
Outside Juárez, through contaminated desert dust, along boulevards of shopping malls and nightclubs, past compounds of prefab houses, lies the Alberque Para Discapacitados Mentales, a care home for those afflicted by drugs.
At the heart of these tales lie warriors plagued by the kind of psychic wounds that have always afflicted some fraction of combat veterans.
Robinson's main challenge is space-sickness, a disorder brought on by weightlessness that afflicts about 50% of all astronauts, and which would no doubt lay low a higher proportion of space tourists.
