I don't think that any economic policy can be seen as a success, when it causes severe anxiety and misery to so many people – including many of our most vulnerable citizens".
Among those miseries: severe pain, drugs with toxic side effects, delirium, and tubes -- as the physician Atul Gawande puts it -- "in most natural orifices and a few artificial ones".
The winter of 1946-47 was one of the most severe ever recorded, causing widespread misery and disruption.
Even if some women do suffer post-abortion depression, which anecdotally may be the case, this does not mean that the phenomenon is nearly as widespread or as severe as the well-documented misery of postpartum depression.
Severe water shortages compound the misery of millions in war-torn Syria - says UNICEF AMMAN, Jordan, 25 August 2015- Amid the unremitting brutality of the war in Syria and a scorching summer heat wave, there is increasing evidence that parties to the conflict are using water to achieve military and political gains.
The vegetarian landlady resembles "an elderly frog laboring under the combined miseries of a severe stomach-ache and the conviction that he was going insane and had better commit suicide".
Areas already suffering after severe flooding are set for more misery as Storm Frank hits the UK, bringing heavy rain and strong winds.
Not long afterwards, a more severe charge was indeed imposed, ramping up the misery for all concerned.
From all angles, the current economic misery in the U.S. is both severe and unrelenting.
Unresolved problems, frustration and irritability are at one end of the hierarchy, whilst guilt, misery and wanting to die (measures of severe depression) are at the other.
