Sentences with phrase «death anxiety by»

Death education programmes could help to reduce levels of death anxiety by preparing nursing students and nurses to confront their beliefs about death, and staff involved in critical incidents should be assessed against a trauma risk - management tool.

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14.17), and by «death» he understands the anxiety which must separate a man from God (cf. Rom.

Bultmann seized what he could use of these ideas: the anxiety produced by the existential question; the dread produced by the answer of death to all; the attempted flight into worldly business, social status and ephemera; the rare courage to begin an existence which would be authentic because open - eyed.

More broadly, they've proven Greenberg and company's original terror management theory right all along: that people deal with death by upholding worldviews that are larger and longer - lasting than themselves, and opposing anyone or anything that violates these «cultural anxiety - buffers.»

Death, how welcome is your sentence to a destitute man whose strength is failing, worn down by age and endless anxiety, resentful and at the end of his patience!

As an American psychiatrist has recently pointed out, Freud was haunted by anxiety about death and the meaninglessness of life.

This new serenity would indeed see him through the first life - threatening onset of cancer, which turned out to be a crisis that sent those of us around him into a watchful state of anxiety but that would by his account leave him with a newfound feeling of peace and acceptance in the presence of death.

Football is not life and death after all and players who worry too much might just be hampered by that anxiety.

Depression — which for this study, was determined by a checklist of mood symptoms, including anxiety and fatigue — accounted for about 15 % of cardiovascular and coronary heart disease deaths, and high cholesterol and obesity for 8 % to 21 %.

Whether this anxiety is triggered by the fear of death in a major life threatening illness or whether it is a pattern of worrying about the future or dwelling in past traumatic events, it gets more intense at night as the unconscious mind needs to take over from the conscious mind for sleep to happen.

Taking into consideration all those facts Dr Lee suggested that when a woman suffers from chronic anxiety or depression, when she has negative attitude toward life, keeps on thinking about death or suicide, or if she is overwhelmed by any other negative thoughts and emotions, her intelligent and closely connected to the brain immune system gets a clear impression that the «boss» (which is the brain) doesn't want to live.

With this script co-written by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, Krasinski has created this obstacle course of silence, with dread that can consume your imagination, as it slams against the anxiety that something might happen to the protagonists in a world where sound equals death.

My Father's House by Ben Tanzer (Main St. Rag) Dealing heavily with one son's worry, anxiety and grief over the slow cancerous death of his father, this novel can be almost too uncomfortably intimate.

THIS FACT, BEING ABSOLUTELY contrary to life's rules, provoked enormous and, in the circumstances, perfectly justifiable anxiety in people's minds, for we have only to consider that in the entire forty volumes of universal history there is no mention, not even one exemplary case, of such a phenomenon ever having occurred, for a whole day to go by, with its generous allowance of twenty - four hours, diurnal and nocturnal, matutinal and vespertine, without one death from an illness, a fatal fall, or a successful suicide, not one, not a single one.

Coping with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) since the Vietnam War and more recently with the death of a beloved pet, an Army veteran finds mutual healing with a shelter dog beset by separation anxiety.

This slipping outside time explains, Proust writes, «why it was that my anxiety on the subject of my death had ceased at the moment when I had unconsciously recognised the taste of the little madeleine, since the being which at that moment I had been was an extra temporal being and therefore unalarmed by the vicissitudes of the future.»

In it he investigates the ideas put forth by Otto Rank, a contemporary of Freud, who believed that fear of death (or, more properly, anxiety about mortality) is the primary motivator for the vast majority of humans.

The Great Schism, the Hundred Years War, the Black Death, the development of gunpowder, the dire economic circumstances brought on throughout Europe by the advent of the Little Ice Age, and the dislocations wrought by urban development, social mobility, and the Crusades, were all of crucial importance to the formation of the anxiety and insecurity that made the nominalist vision of the world believable.

These experiences can contribute to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples» experiences of depression, anxiety and other problems, including attempted suicide and death by suicide.

So focusing on that relationship should provide a really effective buffer from the anxiety caused by thinking about death.

The basic idea is that grabbing onto people and groups who validate your viewpoints is a good way of lessening anxiety caused by your impending doom and it helps protect your self - esteem, which is threatened by thinking about death.

«Whether you are struggling with depression, suffering with anxiety or panic attacks, wrestling with your marriage, coping with divorce, dealing with an illness or death, feeling controlled or humiliated by your significant other, or living with a history of sexual abuse or assault, I can help you work on these issues.