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At the site of an amputation, severed nerve endings can thicken and become more sensitive, transmitting distress signals even in response to mild pressure.
First, although they're not generally insensitive to other people's emotions, they are insensitive to signs that other people are in distress.
And fearful expressions convey urgent need and emotional distress, and they usually elicit compassion and a desire to help in people who see them, so it makes sense that people who tend to lack compassion also tend to be insensitive to these cues.
They're literally better at detecting when somebody else is in distress.
Half of critical care nurses and a quarter of ICU doctors have considered quitting their jobs because of distress over feeling that for some of their patients, they've provided care that didn't fit with the person's values.
Higher rates of chronic pain, autoimmune disorders, disordered eating, mental distress, anxiety, self harm, depression.
And when the rain does come, it so often leads to flooding and added distress, and the cycle of poverty and hunger and disease.
The court becomes a place you can go to for assistance, like the 60-something-year-old schizophrenic homeless woman who was in distress and fighting with the voices in her head, and barges into court, and screams, "Judge!
And furthermore, when somebody stimulates your amygdala while you're sitting there and you might just be working, you don't show any signs of distress, but you stop breathing, and you don't start again until somebody stimulates you.
Letters from his rural home only add to his distress when he realizes how much his mother and sister have sacrificed for his success.
What I'm saying is that, surely, rationally, our distress about things that happen, about threats, should be roughly proportional to the size of those threats and threats to come.
She held a vigil there, and she even rocked in distress over the body.
It can be rocking, as I said, in distress.
She pawed at the grave, she brayed in distress, and there she stood.
It's quivering, and it lies down and it's in obvious distress.
Across the globe, we lack well-tailored laws that would be designed to tackle digital impersonations that invade sexual privacy, that damage reputations and that cause emotional distress.
Then our predictive model finds patterns between media imprints and tells me which narrative ingredients are more likely to lead to engagement in altruistic behavior rather than distress and apathy.
Candace Kim: We've seen that students who participate in our storytelling opportunity show between a 36 and 51 percent decrease in distress.
Because those kinds of thinking do not elicit emotional distress and, more importantly, they're in our control.
You see mental distress going up with lower income.
Anxiety can create misery for the child, and the parents are front and center in witnessing their child's distress.
My excessive anxiety would harm me more over the long term if they let me avoid and escape these situations and not learn how to tolerate occasional distress.
For children with anxiety in this day and age, they are always calling their parents or texting distress calls at all hours of the day and night.
But whether we are young or old, excessive anxiety leads us to overestimate risk and distress while underestimating our ability to cope.
She was, of course, done up for the occasion, but this was a woman in great physical distress.
Same is true for organ failure, when you have loss of function owing to poor perfusion of kidney, of liver, acute respiratory distress syndrome and damage suffered in cardiac-bypass surgery.
The next time that you feel intense distress, ask yourself: Could this have a purely physical cause?
At the next Friday sermon, the women who were sitting in the side room of the mosque began to share their distress at the state of affairs.
Unfortunately, somebody with a bit of a hero complex decided that this damsel was in distress and needed saving.
And as it comes to shore and the wind blows, and little droplets of the water get into the air, the emergency rooms of all the hospitals fill up with people with acute respiratory distress.
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