'profound stress' is correct and can be used in written English.
You could use this phrase to describe a particularly intense, emotionally draining mental state. For example: "The recent events in my life have caused me to experience profound stress."
Mechanically ventilated patients experience profound stress.
But his story illustrates the profound stress facing leaders who focus too heavily on their responsibilities to others.
The idea was so simple as to be heretical: ordinary cells could be turned into stem cells by subjecting them to profound stress.
It can involve profound stress because of fear of rejection but for most it is a liberation, the lifting of an exhausting weight.
Using data from the WRAP, Zuelsdorff and her colleagues examined the role of profound stress on the cognitive function of 1,320 people, of whom 82 were black.
But for people in recovery from substance use disorders, such as from opiates or alcohol, the holidays can be a time of unique and profound stress.
The gender pay gap, which results in profound workplace stress – alongside increased levels of sexism and harassment – for women.
Manganese toxicity can evoke neuropsychiatric and neuromotor symptoms, which have frequently been attributed to profound oxidative stress in the dopaminergic system.
Those people are likely to marry later in life, when communication and relationship skills are well-honed, and they're less likely to experience the kind of profound economic stress that helps to end marriages in lower economic brackets.
"There you will already see profound drought stress to crops and people," says Shroder, and "this will only add to the political uncertainty in the region".
The endocrine and self-report measures confirm that the protocol reliably provoked profound emotional stress in our sweat donors.
