Word: distresse
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...informers trailed him. For two days the Taliban staked out the home where Haq was staying. Early Friday morning Taliban troops surrounded him on three sides. Cut off in the Khyber Pass, Haq placed a call on his satellite phone to his nephew in Pakistan; word of Haq's distress soon reached the CIA. As Haq tried to escape on horseback, the U.S. sent an unmanned Predator surveillance plane to shoot a Hellfire missile at his pursuers. It missed. Soon after the Taliban captured Haq. He was taken to Kabul and executed...
...attack is even affecting civil cases. Joseph Rice, a San Francisco jury consultant, says his mock juries are suddenly more skeptical of personal-injury lawsuits. They are coming in with lower emotional-distress awards in product-liability cases and telling him it's because the plaintiffs' pain and suffering do not compare to what they saw in the World Trade Center collapse...
...informers trailed him. For two days the Taliban staked out the home where Haq was staying. Early Friday morning Taliban troops surrounded him on three sides. Cut off in the Khyber Pass, Haq placed a call on his satellite phone to his nephew in Pakistan; word of Haq's distress soon reached the CIA. As Haq tried to escape on horseback, the U.S. sent an unmanned Predator surveillance plane to shoot a Hellfire missile at his pursuers. It missed. Soon after the Taliban captured Haq. He was taken to Kabul and executed...
...your distress is a specific (though out-of-control) reaction to an outward stimulus like the current crisis, then Paxil and the others are "wrong, wrong, wrong," says Friedman. Episodic anxiety is best treated with an entirely different class of drugs known as benzodiazepines, including Valium, Xanax, Ativan and Klonopin. These work within minutes, not weeks--but they're potentially addictive, so they shouldn't be used for more than two weeks...
...depression and even clinical post-traumatic stress disorder is very high. More than 5,600 students were evacuated from eight schools near the World Trade Center and relocated onto new campuses, some in distant neighborhoods. The logistic hassles and the uncertainty about the future serve to increase their distress. Catie Prendergast, 10, sipping a chocolate milk shake outside her new school two weeks ago, confessed that on a recent night "I had a dream that I saw the planes, and we had to run for our lives...