Developmental dyslexia is a persistent difficulty in learning to read despite adequate intelligence and schooling; it has high prevalence and a familial and genetic risk (e.g., Gabrieli 2009).
And if you go to the doctor too much, it's seen as a sign of weakness or that you are not strong enough to manage things on your own.' An alarming feature of this 'stiff upper lip' (P15, female, change in bowel/bladder habits, persistent difficulty swallowing), was the extent to which people put up with debilitating symptoms.
They referred to people who go 'every day or every other day for some menial thing' (P20, female, persistent difficulty swallowing), and did not want to be like them: 'I feel like they are going to go, "For goodness' sake, why would you come to me with a silly thing like that?" And they really don't but then I don't ever go for anything that's that silly.
On the other hand, the patients were entering environments they had been in many times previously with persistent difficulty, and habituation is less likely to occur when safety behaviours remain in place (Salkovskis, 1991; McManus, Scadura and Clark, 2008).
You have persistent difficulty controlling bowel and bladder function, leading to persistent fecal and urinary incontinence.
This requires satisfaction of the criteria for PTSD plus symptoms of mood dysregulation, negative self concept, and persistent difficulty in sustaining relationships and feeling close to others.
Pronounced clinging when picked up or intense crying when put down could be described as the most persistent difficulties from 3 to 6 months.
People are diagnosed with PTSD after exposure to a trauma if they experience a strong emotional response to the event that is followed by persistent difficulty in three key areas, including reexperiencing (e.g., nightmares, flashbacks), arousal (e.g., startle response, sleep disturbance), and avoidance (e.g., withdrawal from people, places, and other reminders of the trauma).
But he has a bigger point to make, regarding Malick's entire career—"Malick has had persistent difficulty doing feeling"—complaining, for instance, that "Days of Heaven" was insufficiently emotional.
