Sentences with phrase «person is in distress»

What we know about trauma is that when a person is in distress, the brain is unable to process information as it does normally.

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«The people with cash are not yet feeling confident enough to be opportunistic; the whole other camp is in denial that anything is going on, in denial that they're in distress,» he says.

While shoppers rush full tilt toward Christmas, the number of people living in economic distress is on the rise.

So trying to suppress negative emotions when we are talking with someone — like when we don't want to trouble someone else with our own distress — actually increases stress levels of both people more than if we had shared our distress in the first place.

Along the way, they would encounter a man in distress (in actuality, this person was planted by the researchers).

The guidelines say that while videos of violence and even death should be marked as disturbing, in many cases they do not have to be deleted because they can «help create awareness of issues such as mental illness,» and because Facebook doesn't want to «censor or punish people in distress.»

Unfortunately, little attention is given to understanding how human dignity of the clinician is threatened and violated in the current health care environment... [which] has led to the systemic violation of the dignity of the clinician (and ultimately that of persons who are sick), created moral distress among clinicians, and the collapse of the healing relationship.

The day of Yahweh's judgment, a joyous day in the exodus texts and in the Psalms, has been turned into a day of lamentation and distress by a people of Israel who have turned into the oppressors of the poor in their midst (Amos 2:6 - 8; 5:18 - 20, 21 - 24; Isa.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but our news programmes are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with the sentimental love expressed in pop songs; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonise over our local sports club; we own many things, and still feel we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» at the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

When a person is displaced into a radically different culture, he suffers acute distress, and when cultural patterns deteriorate through internal contradictions in a society or by external forces, the persons concerned undergo disorientation and disintegration.

It is our task to address both their underlying and structural causes and their distressing consequences in order to reduce uncertainty and insecurity in the life of the people.

We live in a world in which for some, misery is the only reality of existence: people starve to death, live in abject poverty and know unrelieved distress and isolation all their days.

These two facets of his professional role definition give the minister a potential advantage over those in the other helping professions, so far as the early recognition of distressed persons is concerned.

helpthehospices.org.uk / media - centre / press - releases / hospice - care - and - the - liverpool - care - pathway /] that «recent media coverage around a small number of distressing stories has been sensationalist and at times inaccurate», and that «it risks causing unnecessary distress to people at one of the most vulnerable times in their lives and may even prevent people from receiving the care that they need».

«If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation,» she said, «it is not because God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not instruments of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise — in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.»

The results demonstrated that the clergy were on the front line of contact with people in emotional distress.

They are forms for prayer, probably used in the temple with the guidance of a priest by persons in distress.

He asks us to stand and raise our right arms in a gesture of blessing» a practice that's become increasingly popular in Catholic churches and is distressing not only because of its questionable theology, but also because the net effect of the sight of a thousand people, right arms stretched forward seems unsettlingly... well, fascist, to put it bluntly.

In 1975 when the Vatican issued its «Guidelines and Suggestions» for contacts between the church and the Jewish people, the document was greeted by Jewish leaders with a mixture of delight and distress: delight at the change of outlook it reflected, and distress that it still contained references to the church's «divine mission» and «witness.»

So begins Pope Michael, a weird, intriguing, and distressing documentary about a young man in a small town in rural eastern Kansas who, after being elected by six people, a group that included his parents and himself, claimed to be the Bishop of Rome.

To uncover people's talents and wisdom is as important a part of the pastoral task as is care for those in special distress.

I think that in view of the present distress it is well for a person to remain as he is.

Bearing this in mind, we can nevertheless see that being religious entails having intellectual commitments whose scope is universal; that the institutionally dominant modes under which interaction among serious religious persons now occurs, both within the academy and outside it, largely prevents the airing of intellectual differences, and so inevitably trivializes religious commitments; and that if this distressing situation is to be remedied, the rehabilitation of interreligious polemics is essential.

I'm not opposed to shows depicting sexual violence, but rape - as - prop is always distressing, particularly in a show like this, where that disregard echoes the kinds of ideas that foster rape culture in the first place: that women's feelings don't matter, that sexual agency isn't a big deal, that rape is something that just kind of happens and that healthy people simply move on.

This can be accomplished by the pastor's maintaining his personal availability and also the availability of the church to people in distress.

The data revealed that pastors do not necessarily take on a new or unprecedented role in being concerned with emotionally distressed persons hospitalized or not hospitalized.

A similar approach, identifying God with people in distress, is found in Robert Castle's «Litany for the Ghetto.»

I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it, or the cry of distress.

I'll bet people, like Steve Martin, are deeply distressed knowing that the only Bible some folks get is in their reading of the Naked Pastor.

After World War II it has come to be realized that the clergy were on the front line of contact with people in emotional distress.

What is distressing, however, is that despite this enormous growth in overall production and consumption, half the world's people are still lacing in necessities.

In the classic addictive cycle people try to relieve their distress with the same thing that caused it, and that's how they end up trapping themselves.

Clergy are most frequently the first professionals in the community to whom people in emotional distress turn.

But people are curious about the result, as they are about the result in a book — they want to know nothing about dread, distress, the paradox.

We are filled with a desire for Catholics and Protestants to discover one another in the deep distress of our own people.

Our present concern, however, is not with this obvious and distressing manifestation of disharmony in social life but with the disharmony itself — that is, the failure on the part of men and women to discern that true community and sound relationships within it can be found only as each of us has his or her place in a wider grouping of humans, where there is vivid contrast because each is valued as being precisely this or that person while the community as a whole has goals or ends (what used to be called «ideals») that are worthy, upbuilding, and enriching.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but all our news programs are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with sentimental love in every pop song; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonize over our local sports team; we own many things, and still feel like we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» on the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

«56 If the melancholy persists, such persons are to be directed to consult «a skillful prudent minister of Christ... that is skilled in such cases,» to whom they can confidently reveal their secrets and pour out without reserve the story of their distress.57, They are neither to exaggerate nor to minimize their affliction, but to tell all that help may be given.

It's been shown to cause digestive distress in people who already have digestive issues (1 in 3 Americans, according to the latest surveys).

Saponin is unpalatable, mildly toxic, and can causing low - level gastrointestinal distress in some people.

«FODMAP is an acronym for Fermentable Oligosaccharides, Disaccharides, Monosaccharides and Polyols, which classifies specific types of short - chain carbohydrates that can trigger digestive distress in some people.»

For me the best part of the conference was that there was a room full of intelligent likeminded people that were all focused and passionate about this issue and actively working in this field, and that was able to quell my feelings of distress, knowing that this issue is a work in progress, it is solvable, and people are dedicated to tackling it.

Neither the University of Oxford nor any individual employee shall be liable to any person in contract, tort, statute or otherwise for any loss, distress or damage of any kind howsoever caused (except for death or personal injury caused by the negligence of the University of Oxford or an individual employee).

Why then, are so many of our young people in distress?

It has the ability to cause significant distress in the relationship and there are many reasons why people cheat on their partner.

Given the distressing comments by people who are in frustratingly sexless marriages, many marriages may indeed be less about love than sacrifice — sacrifice of one's sexual needs.

These can create great results, but be aware that some people may have intestinal distress from the high dosage of Fenugreek necessary in order to boost supply.

Week.4: your baby will be comfortable in their own surroundings now but they may be anxious when you take them into a new environments, such as another person's house or a childminders or nursery; babies are very good at adapting to different situations and in time they will get used to new settings; some babies are raring to go and love the excitement of new people and new places, while others are shy and get distressed once their mum or dad leaves them; if this is the case, try not to worry as they will get used to it much quicker than you think.

People with high self - esteem were not immune to distress in the face of romantic rejection, whether they were rejecter or rejectee, but they were less inclined to assume a lion's share of the blame for the split.

For REALLY trendy stuff I prefer going the inexpensive route, however, I've seen distressed jeans around for a few seasons now and I suspect they are becoming a staple in people's wardrobe.