While the "opportunity costs" of the U.S. misadventure in Iraq have had a global impact, the most severe consequences of Washington's preoccupation with the Middle East may become evident next year in Asia.
Where there are clear external grounds for a person's unhappiness, a dysthymic disorder is considered to be present when the depressed mood is disproportionately severe or prolonged, when there is a preoccupation with the precipitating situation, when the depression continues even after removal of the provocation, and when it impairs the individual's ability to cope with the specific stress.
A report by the Connecticut child advocate said Lanza's severe and deteriorating mental health problems, his preoccupation with violence and access to his mother's weapons "proved a recipe for mass murder".
Bächli's severe grisaille palette offsets her washy, brushy touch; a preoccupation with abstract line effloresces occasionally into figurative elements (a pair of eyes or stockinged legs).
For children disturbed by images of the attacks, Dr. Yehuda said, a preoccupation that in three weeks is as severe as it is now may suggest that help is appropriate.
Initial unawareness of erectile dysfunction stemmed from morbidity, the side effects of treatment (severe in some cases), and the shock from or preoccupation with having cancer.
He accuses the Fed of keeping monetary policy too tight because of a preoccupation with inflation; but it enacted several rounds of unconventional stimulus.Because the last crisis was less severe than the Depression, bankers were able to hold firm in resisting radical reform of the financial system.
What a relief, frankly, to shed the preoccupations of my life -- the guilts and worries, anxiety about what others think, and my own severe self-judgment -- simply to be in the presence of what is utterly and completely not me.
Another big, new preoccupation?
But Matt Matttt was his preoccupation.
