Word: distressed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...some time in their life, all children experience distress--commonly called separation anxiety--when saying goodbye to parents. But as Stephanie Johnson can attest, the suffering can be kept to a minimum--which is important, since the way early separations are handled, psychologists believe, can influence how people manage transitions throughout their life...
...tell him. His blue eyes--destroyed years ago by glaucoma and cataracts--stare forlornly back at me. "Well, that's what you keep telling me," he says. He looks sad, confused. He starts making a thin whistling sound, a sign I recognize as his signal of distress...
RESPONSE TO DISTRESS: Dawson's Creek star dived into the North Carolina surf after spotting two girls in danger of drowning...
RESPONSE TO DISTRESS: The brothers stopped their car on a London street after spotting a driver whose battery had failed...
...bank. The film takes a sympathetic view of Leeson, which is fine; the problem is, it never offers a sense of the man behind the mania. What does come through is that Leeson ate a lot of candy during crises. Cadbury wrappers shouldn't be made signifiers of emotional distress...