I would like to congratulate the young Matthew C. Klein for exposing a distressing phenomenon that we, the parents, are too embarrassed to admit.
But the increasing prominence of human error as a factor in fatal crashes like Air France Flight 447 — and like the 2009 Colgan Air crash near Buffalo, New York, that killed 50 — is a distressing phenomenon that some safety experts say regulators are only beginning to address.
In fact, I needed three hours of stone-cold slumber on a Saturday afternoon before I could confront the awkwardness of my dating life (a distressing phenomenon that I believed had been safely banished during my 20s).
Loneliness can be an extremely painful and distressing phenomenon [ 7] that can have serious consequences for adolescent well-being.
This view is supported by observations that problematic weight gain may rapidly emerge on cessation of regular cocaine use (Cowan & Devine, 2008), a distressing phenomenon that can lead to relapse.
Though some partners denied paternity, a distressing phenomenon for young mothers observed elsewhere in the South African context [ 41], most of the women we interviewed described their partners as supportive during pregnancy and less so during the postpartum period.
Given these limitations, the results show that intrusive imagery is a common and distressing phenomenon in health anxiety and may link to the development and maintenance of the disorder.
What explains this disturbing phenomenon?
Beah's autobiography is almost unique, as far as I can determine — perhaps the first time that a child soldier has been able to give literary voice to one of the most distressing phenomena of the late 20th century: the rise of the pubescent (or even prepubescent) warrior-killer.
The instrument consists of six items measuring inability to undertake normal functions and six items on the appearance of new and distressing phenomena.
