While the drugs may dull symptoms, the side effects can include rapid weight gain, heart problems, loss of sex drive and a greater risk of developing diabetes.
As parts of the brain degenerate, patients suffer severe cognitive problems: loss of memory, loss of judgment, loss of the capacity to organise oneself.
Symptoms include: exhaustion, insecurity, poor concentration, withdrawal, feeling vulnerable, intrusive thoughts, feeling threatened, anxiety, feeling alienated, sleep problems, loss of confidence, forgetfulness, despair and hopelessness, lack of boundaries, no holidays, feeling indispensable, feeling unable to listen and cynicism.
It methodically details the well-publicized problems — loss of coordination, cognitive deficits, uncontrollable rages — that forced the N.F.L. to issue new rules this season limiting players with head injuries from returning to the field.
The whole concert, and the whole evening, really, was a lesson in getting around blockades: prejudices, debts, bad marriages, health problems, loss of faith, the lip of the stage.
Economic losses were roughly evenly split between three categories: direct costs to the NHS of treating smoking-related health problems loss of earnings due to days off sick from work, and loss of earnings due to premature death before retirement age.
Most of the phone calls and letters I receive are about mishaps, problems, losses of various sorts.
Even with a trivial breach an organization must work hard to see what problems, losses and potential lasting effects resulted from the hack.
Paralysis by overanalysis is not his problem; loss by impulse is more like it.
To restore confidence in our book markets and our literary institutions, we must address the underlying problem —loss of confidence in our nation's writers.
The larger retailers argue that trade penalties will not solve the problem of job losses.
