Burdens such as insomnia, concentration problems, fear of death and spiritual problems were only described by few authors in low-quality, observational studies.
We modified the questionnaire by adding eleven highly prevalent symptoms in older veterans, including pain, feeling tired, trouble sleeping, depression or memory problems, muscle weakness, dizziness, shakiness, balance problems, fear of falling, and numbness or tingling.
Despite the lack of distress endorsed on general depression and anxiety indices, participants reported moderate distress associated with cancer-related concerns, including physical problems, fear of cancer recurrence, and resuming normal life.
Many depressed persons who won't go to a professional therapist have objections like 'talking' does not help, lack of willingness to talk to a stranger about personal problems, fear of a stigma [ 11].
[ 37, 44- 46] Stigma intersects with structural and other barriers that arise from experience of victimization and mental health problems, fear of having one's children apprehended, minority status, income and rural location, to name but a few.
Stigma remains a central problem – fear of the disease, fear of people with the disease, rejection, ostracism and discrimination.
Reasons for refusal to participate were similar between cases and controls, including fear that giving blood will cause sickness, disbelief that arsenic is a problem, fear of social ramifications of identification as an "arsenic patient," no desire to participate in any study, and desire for compensation.
One group described their "powerlessness" to act in support of perceived problems, fearing that they would not be retained within the programme.
And, these visits notwithstanding, Koster remained remote from the problems and fears of the "grunts" — ground soldiers — assigned to his command.
While straight teens answered that their biggest problems were typical teen matters -- classes/exams/grades, college/career and finances, LGBT teens answered that their biggest problems were non-accepting families, school/bullying problems and fear of being out or open.
"Because of our own internal political problems and fear of regenerating another Vietnam we've just concentrated on the drug thing and hoped the other problems would go away".
