You try leaving the house but the salt air and humidity strangle your lungs, adding to your vicious cycle of illness with your body wiped clean of energy.
Anyone who knows something of Johnson's vicious struggles with mental illness will see them echoed in the astronomer.
The study findings thus seemed to suggest a vicious cycle of mental illness, stigma and poverty.
Undernourished children who survive may enter the vicious cycle of recurring illness and faltering growth, with irreversible damage to their growth, cognitive development, school performance, and future productivity as adults.
Children become victims of a vicious circle where poverty, illness, inadequate nutrition and absence of drinkable water, sanitation and hygiene provide them with least opportunities for a good start in life.
11 Misdiagnosis or underdiagnosis, which translates into late or inappropriate treatment, can lead to a vicious circle of exacerbated existing illness and the development of new illnesses, fostering further anxiety, demoralization, and depression.
This interconnected feed-forward regulation of TH and Se may be of paramount pathophysiological importance in the clinics, and could contribute to the vicious cycle observed in critical illness in which both parameters are known to decline in parallel (Fig. 5).
Poverty and illness constitute a vicious circle, especially in low- and middle-income countries [ 12], including Laos.
In fact, patient and clinician enter a vicious cycle of ineffective chronic illness behaviour (patient) and ineffective chronic professional behaviour (clinician) [Koekkoek B, Hutschemaekers G, van Meijel B, Schene A: How do patients become to be seen as 'difficult'?: a mixed-methods study in community mental health care, revision submitted].
