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Mark is quick to point out that each so-called disorder is only understood as such if the drives and behaviors impair normal social interaction. No disorder exists, then, unless the “fantasies, sexual urges, or behaviors cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning,” the manual explains...
...this spring, she founded Harvard Students in Touch, a group that delivers small care packages to students in distress. Any student can e-mail with the name of a person they are concerned about, and within days, the group’s small staff will drop candy and a card in that person’s door box. The sender remains confidential to the receiver...
...empathy from our leaders, and this is where I believe George Bush's performance as president-father has been most wanting. Case in point: At this moment, my five-year-old daughter is suffering through the very natural (but still wholly unsettling) fear of "mommy and daddy dying." Her distress is heartbreaking, of course, and I soon discovered that the best way to soothe her is by showing her that I take her worries seriously, discussing them with her each and every time they bubble to the surface...
WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN CBS NEWS FINALLY HAD TO BACK DOWN AFTER ITS DEFENSE OF ITS STORY? My reaction from the beginning was one of severe distress...
...What You Said” and the whirring pomposity of “Less Than You Think.” But focusing on its quieter moments, I am pleased to find some of the higher songwriting peaks of Tweedy’s career, from the muted distress of “Wishful Thinking” to jangly Clear Channel cutdown “The Late Greats.” Unofficial concert poet laureate of Chicago Thax Douglas will be sorely missed, but the inevitable “Heavy Metal Drummer” sing-along will not. Opening...