Moreover, silent worries about mental health and reproductive decision making surfaced.
They tend to remain silent if worried about their health.
In late November, she was too preoccupied struggling to get through the busy season in the mom-and-pop fruit store in Philadelphia that she owned with Joseph, her sweet, silent husband, to worry about "toikey".
He views testosterone deficiency in older men as a silent epidemic, and worries that, of the perhaps five million American men who suffer from it, ninety-five per cent go undiagnosed.
There is no clear sign that this body of civilians, many of them exiles, will be able to win the allegiance of Syria's silent majority, deeply worried at the destruction of the country and still undecided whether to cast its lot with the embattled regime or risk an unknown future with the rebels.
Worry about silent consumers, not only loud producers.
In Ahmed's case, her mother remained silent because she was worried about the family's honour being disgraced should the abuse be disclosed.
But the Apple went radio silent, and Sivers grew worried that he may have to return the money to the participating artists.
But the reality is that most women who are victims of workplace harassment stay silent because they are worried about losing their jobs, and those who do speak up often end up signing nondisclosure agreements.
In an e-mail from my friend Joan, she empathized with me, having lived the same drill of sleeping with a baby monitor listening for your parent's breathing and worrying about silent blood clots.
