Sentence examples for memory distress from inspiring English sources

Paired contrasts showed that, 1 week after both the rescripting and the control sessions, memory distress had significantly decreased.

The experimental session led to significant improvement in negative beliefs, image and memory distress and vividness, fear of negative evaluation, and anxiety in feared social situations.

Difference scores were calculated for: (a) the encapsulated belief, (b) memory distress, (c) the Liebowitz anxiety score, and (d) the Liebowitz picture rating score.

The latter finding differs from the within-session analysis which found that the control procedure had no effect on memory distress.

With the exception of image vividness, Pearson correlations of the association between the ratings before and after the control session in this study were moderate to strong, suggesting acceptable retest reliability: encapsulated belief (r = 0.60, p < 0.05), memory distress (r = 0.75, p = 0.01), image distress (r = 0.71, p < 0.01), vividness (r = 0.13, p < 0.71), and frequency (r = 0.92, p < 0.01).

Class 2 (predominantly PTSD, 25%) evidenced high probabilities of the following PTSD symptoms: intrusive memories, distress to reminders, avoidance of thoughts and activities, and all hyperarousal symptoms (except hypervigilance).

"I have a poor memory for distress," she wrote, "but can recall discontent and raging fevers of impatience".

A prolonged continuation of the biological and behavioral responses following acute traumatic stress may lead to greater pairing of the traumatic memory with distress, initiating a cascade of secondary biological alterations with long-term adverse consequences including interference with fear extinction learning and retention [ 33- 36].

The death of someone with advanced dementia can be a sad blessing for those who have loved them, restoring that person to all the selves they have ever been – but a bad or lonely death makes mourning painfully difficult, full of anger and regret and terrible failure, of almost unendurable memories of distress.

The study provides evidence for the link between maladaptive appraisals of intrusive memories and distress in depressed mood.

The patients were asked about memory of pain, distress from lack of control, and inability to express needs.