Didion, a native of California, wrote of that region that it was 'a place... in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent'.
Perceived stress was assessed by a reliable and valid item from the QPS Nordic Questionnaire [26]: "Stress means the situation when a person feels tense, restless, nervous, or anxious, or is unable to sleep at night because his or her mind is troubled all the time.
In 1968, Joan Didion wrote that, "California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension, in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent".
Stress was measured using the following question: "Stress refers to a situation where a person feels tense, restless, nervous, or anxious, or is unable to sleep at night because his/her mind is troubled all the time.
The stress definition and question reads as follows: "Stress means a situation in which a person feels tense, restless, nervous or anxious, or is unable to sleep at night because his/her mind is troubled all the time.
First, the following definition of stress was given: "Stress means a situation in which a person feels tense, restless, nervous and anxious and/or is unable to sleep at night because his/her mind is troubled all the time".
In this 50sq ft cell, my mind was troubled; I felt terrified and uneasy.
Some public officials seemed to suggest Paddock's mind was troubled, though there were no immediate indications that he had been diagnosed with a mental illness or was anything other than fully aware of what he was doing.
Our minds are troubled by the emptiness.
The discontented plow-man : this man was troubled in his mind, because his love did prove to him unkind : but now, she has granted his desire, and quench'd his lovesick heart which was on fire [sic] : to the tune of, True love rewarded, or, Flora farewel.
The Hartford-shire damosel in great distress : this country girl is troubled in her mind... : the tune is, My father gave me house and land.
