At times, the women were preoccupied with related anxiety, distress, and worry, which not only interfered with their everyday lives, but also prevented them from feeling capable of fully engaging in decision making.
So far, most discussions of intellectual property in cyberspace are preoccupied with calming corporate anxieties about controlling the flow of images and information.
Each unlikeable family member is crippled with anxiety, preoccupied with their own problems and uninterested in the unfolding human tragedy on their doorstep.
The Arabs are totally preoccupied with Iran, and in their anxiety and weakness, they have turned to Israel for help.
Those high on attachment anxiety are preoccupied with relationships, concerned about rejection, and hyperactivate the attachment system [ 20].
Turning away from a life of meaning, mission and vision, or being so preoccupied with avoiding death that in our anxiety we forget to really live and what it is that makes life really worth living, or seeking to prolong life with so much zeal that the life one lives becomes a torment, would all be examples of that.
One argument is that U.S. mutual funds, as significant investors, are preoccupied with quarterly earnings, which feeds the quarterly anxiety of corporate boards of directors.
In this model, chronically dizzy patients are suffering from a kind of performance anxiety: their conscious minds are preoccupied with a usually spontaneous function, and what is supposed to be automatic ceases to be.
For decades, psychology was preoccupied with alleviating negative emotional states like depression, chronic anger, or anxiety.
Reasons included being distracted by hearing voices or experiences of their thoughts being interfered with, having lack of drive to socialise, anxiety or low/irritable mood, feeling stigmatised and being preoccupied with unusual interests or experiences.
Consumers, whether because of anxiety about the war or because they have been preoccupied with the television coverage, have slowed their spending.
