Word: distraughtly
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...were 16 when you told your parents you were gay. Why then? I had just broken up with my first girlfriend. I was distraught and decided to drown my sorrows in chocolate and sugar. I skipped school to go to a doughnut shop and was on my way back when I didn't see the red light until it was too late and got rear-ended in my '82 Toyota Starlet hatchback. I went home and told my mom first. I don't remember my exact words. It took her a couple minutes to realize this was not just...
...friend the surgeon was distraught. He had used a tool called a rongeur to chew up the scar tissue and had accidentally chewed up the scaphoid bone--ending Johnson's ability to do orthopedic surgery. "The actual damage happened in a matter of seconds," he says. "I heard later that he had told my wife while I was still under anesthesia. She said, 'You go and fix it before he wakes up!' What she didn't know was that there are some things that can't be fixed...
...disengage, to stop the conversation. Some scientists speculate that crying may have developed as a kind of psychic escape hatch - the sheer physicality of it distracting the distraught when mental anguish becomes too much to endure...
...baby, whom she was carrying on her back, tumbled to the ground and lay wailing throughout the attack. "He left me there naked," Ngoza Djoli says, her baby at her breast. Djoli does not know how old she is; she looks about 17. When her husband heard her distraught tale, she says, he said: "What can we do? He is a soldier, and I am a civilian." Chilling as it is, Djoli's story is a small detail in the epic misery unfolding in Katanga, a province of the D.R.C. that's approximately the size of France...
...Experts say it's important for congressmen, like anyone else, to have somewhere to turn when they are distraught or depressed. "Anybody can have psychiatric problems, the high and the mighty as well as the average Joe," says Dr. Steven Sharfstein, a Baltimore psychiatrist who is president of the American Psychiatric Association. "Psychiatry is good for anybody who needs...