In a sample of distressed patients not all patients with distress for more than six months are chronic worriers; some or perhaps most of them are just confronted with long-lasting social difficulties and stressors, and, although we recognize that these patients need their distress to be recognized and taken care of, most of them are unlikely to benefit from a diagnosis of 'anxiety disorder'.
A similar lack of long-lasting effects and difficulties among women with FM to maintain their levels of resistance exercise after the end of intervention have previously been reported [ 57].
In BioShock Infinite, Irrational Games included a gameplay feature called the "1999 Mode", specifically in reference to System Shock 2s release year, designed to provide a similar game experience, with a higher difficulty and long-lasting effects of choices made, that would remind players of System Shocks unforgiving nature.
Such delays can permanently impair a child's ability to learn to speak intelligibly and can result in long-lasting social, emotional and academic difficulties.
But a parent with a profoundly deaf infant reading this column could well come away thinking that the only options available for the child are cochlear implants or "long-lasting social, emotional and academic difficulties".
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a non-inflammatory rheumatic disorder characterized by widespread long-lasting pain, fatigue, distress and difficulties in carrying out daily activities.
So social workers are rewarded, she says, for spending less time gathering evidence of abuse, and for bailing out on families with difficulties that are long-lasting but not severe enough to warrant taking the children away.
The difficulties were far more complicated and long-lasting than I would ever have imagined; closure has been far more elusive.
Early androgen exposure is known to have long-lasting effects on phenotype, behaviour and even fitness, but difficulties in measuring the exposure hinders the study of its importance in evolutionary context.
Hankey's words were a reminder of the difficulty in obeying Dieter Rams's commandment about long-lasting design.
