This phrase is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation in which someone is feeling very upset or anxious, for example: After the accident, the family was seriously distressed.
If I didn't get an "A" for each essay, I was seriously distressed.
While fewer people are beginning default, the number of borrowers who are seriously distressed is rising.
The young girl appeared seriously distressed, shouting, crying and breathing heavily in front of a live studio audience during the row, which erupted after she was accused by her sister of stealing items from their mother.
If it proves successful, this kind of software could be used in neonatal intensive-care units (NICU) to help alert medical staff when an infant becomes seriously distressed, says Sheryl Brahnam, an information scientist at Missouri State University at Springfield.
A set up but fading physically towards the end of the second on an exposed outside court, Konta served on set point against her, fell woozily to the ground and was seriously distressed as she grabbed for her breath.
There is an obvious dilemma for Chisora: he is 28, has a mother who is seriously distressed by his behaviour, and he has to earn a living – yet if he applies for a licence to box in another country he will give the impression that he is snubbing the British board.
"Sixteen minutes of the golden hour has gone," said the narrator seriously as distressed moans emerged from the wreckage of a car, and over the next 55 minutes he visited every hourglass-watching cliché in the language.
Lately, I have been spending a good deal of time in Penn Station and have wondered – not for the first time – whether 65% of the people waiting for trains there appear to be seriously mentally distressed because they arrived that way, or because they have stepped into an alternative universe of heat, bewilderment, pain and ambient evil.
"[Some patients were] quite distressed and worried about it so there was some real human misery associated with this in some men who were seriously worried they had recurrent cancer".
It would also further weaken Iran's economy — putting even more pressure on Iran to negotiate seriously — while helping distressed Western economies and helping President Obama's chances of re-election.
"We take the matter of fraud and the misappropriation of College funds very seriously, and remain deeply distressed over the betrayal of trust in this matter," the statement said.
