Word: chronically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...many years I have suffered from a chronic depressive illness in cycles of varying intensity and duration. Although never properly diagnosed until my second year of graduate school at Harvard, I date my major episodes of depression from my thirteenth year. The following reflections are offered to everyone in the Harvard community willing to take any interest, because the various mental illnesses affect all of us in so many ways: victims most immediately, but also (sometimes drastically) family members, friends, employers, teachers, colleagues and even complete strangers. Please keep in mind that I write only as a layperson and patient...
Whether or not the widespread need for extreme privacy in these matters ever changes, there are several suggestions I have which affect everyone who reads this. Because I went through far too many years of life untreated for chronic depression and misled by several well-meaning but ignorant people, I make these imperative statements...
These countries face far more chronic unemployment than the U.S., and double-digit jobless rates are common even in good years. Roughly half of those on the dole have been out of work for more than a year, as opposed to 6% in the U.S. The social-protection system designed to help people through the rough patches "suddenly is needed massively and for a long time by millions of jobless," says Lothar Stock, who heads a social-welfare organization in Frankfurt. "The system cannot cope with these new conditions...
...1980s produced millions of "working poor" in service jobs and cost low-skilled workers a 20% drop in the real wages. Europe, through its high minimum wages and other rules, saw a rise in real pay for those lucky enough to have jobs -- at the price of chronic unemployment for the unskilled. It is beginning to look like a trade-off that is no longer affordable, or acceptable...
Members of the battalion developed large red blotches on their hands and arms. Within a week, Kay felt tired almost all the time. Since then he has suffered chronic diarrhea, aches in all his joints and has difficulty breathing -- symptoms that have bedeviled many of the Seabees who served with Kay in the Persian Gulf. "These guys have been miserable for the past two years, and they weren't having any of these problems before that," says Charles Jackson, a physician at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Tuskegee, Alabama. Last month, after running many tests on Kay and researching...