Word: despairful
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...alone, Schwarzkopf said, in his private office, and he was taking as much heat as I was. "You're pressuring me to put aside my military judgment out of political expediency. I've felt this way for a long time!" he said. Suddenly, his tone shifted from anger to despair. "Colin, I feel like my head's in a vise. Maybe I'm losing it. Maybe I'm losing my objectivity...
...mild mania. The disease quickly worsened. During her 20s she careened through increasingly florid manias and overlapping depressions. "People usually think of mania and depression existing separately," says Jamison, "but the most dangerous episodes are the ones which combine mania's racing thoughts and impulsivity with depression's despair. That's often when people try to kill themselves...
With or without creativity, Jamison cautions, there is nothing glamorous about manic depression: "It's a horrible disease." In her manic phases, her restless energy helped destroy her first marriage and sent her on financially ruinous shopping sprees. Then, in her blackest despair, she tried to kill herself...
Evolutionary psychology thus helps explain why modern feminism got its start after the suburbanization of the 1950s. The landmark 1963 book The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan grew out of her 1959 conversation with a suburban mother who spoke with "quiet desperation" about the anger and despair that Friedan came to call "the problem with no name" and a doctor dubbed "the housewife's syndrome." It is only natural that modern mothers rearing children at home are more prone to depression than working mothers, and that they should rebel...
...make the most of their opportunity, the Democrats will need a leader as skilled and focused as Gingrich, and some of them despair when they look at the White House. "We very much want [Clinton] in this fight," says a congressional aide. "We would be a hell of a lot more effective if he was more active in it, but I think there's no such thing as a permanent, firm commitment from him. He's with us this week. If next week Newt offers him a deal, my guess is he'll be with Newt...