Word: despairful
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...article about the polar bears losing their habitat was really upsetting to them," she says. Treatment includes placing a photograph of a polar bear into the patient's hands and encouraging him or her to have a conversation with the bear as a way to ease the patient's despair. Pickett might also suggest that patients do their own research into the polar bears' situation. The hope is that patients will begin to better understand their feelings. As they do so, they might decide to take action by, say, giving money to a save-the-polar-bear fund...
...painkillers even though pain is a normal part of the process. But the authors also note that "loss responses are part of our biological heritage." Nonhuman primates separated from sexual partners or peers have physiological responses that correlate with sadness, including higher levels of certain hormones. Human infants express despair to evoke sympathy from others. These sadness responses suggest sorrow is genetic and that it is useful for attracting social support, protecting us from aggressors and teaching us that whatever prompted the sadness--say, getting fired because you were always late to work--is behavior to be avoided. This...
...conventional wisdom had been that cities [in 1918] had done everything they could and nothing worked - it was all doom and gloom and dread and nothing to do but throw up our hands in despair," says Dr. Martin Cetron, director of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and a senior author of the study. "This study gives us real reason for optimism, that even reaching back to a time where there were no antiviral medications and no well-matched vaccines to fight a pandemic, the things communities did in terms...
...husky voice, a mop of blond hair and strong features that caught the camera's eye even when she wasn't center-screen, Vitti starred in five Antonioni pictures, instantly becoming their anguished or volatile face, their always human soul. She was so acute a revealer of depression, disappointment, despair, that it was a shock to see her in other Italian films as a bubbly, expert comedienne. In 1964, when Antonioni won the Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for Red Desert, he paid tribute to "someone close to me who has collaborated with me courageously and most valorously...
...masterly Swedish auteur Ingmar Bergman, who found both humor and despair in the human psyche, redefined cinema worldwide. He was 89. (See Arts for an Appreciation of Bergman by Woody Allen...