Word: painfulness
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...predictability. Yet boys are all about disorder: digging in the dirt, scuffed knees, taking apart Dad's favorite portable radio to "see how it works," learning the rules and etiquette of street basketball. As the article points out, boys learn best by doing. The inevitable bits of temporary pain that occur through mistakes and failures forge the common sense and confidence that allow young boys to successfully navigate through life as young...
...once] going through a time when my speech had completely broken down, and I had trouble speaking on the phone, and it was very easy to access the pain and the comedy of that,” he says. “Very early in the process, I stopped thinking about it as my own life, and I never felt beholden to the actual facts as they went down...
...published in an online edition of the Journal of General Internal Medicine, asked over 200 mostly white resident physicians to prescribe treatment to hypothetical patients based only on a picture of a man’s face and a description of the patient’s sharp chest pain. All of the hypothetical conditions were the same, except for the fact that some of the men were white and others were black. A great deal more of the physicians prescribed thrombolysis for the white men than did for the black...
...adorable. About 7 million adults, teens and children in the U.S. are now thought to have it in one form or another, and their pain is far worse than you probably know. What's more, since one family member disabled by the disorder can destabilize an entire household, a single diagnosed case can mean several collateral victims. Worse, OCD is a condition that often masquerades as other things. It is routinely labeled depression, bipolar disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism, even schizophrenia. Victims often conceal their problem for years, ensuring that no diagnosis--right or wrong--can begin...
...bring their fingers to their lips. Left to themselves, most would have refused or, if they went along, would have then found the nearest bathroom and spent long minutes--perhaps long hours--scrubbing. Instead, they sat with Grayson and the anxiety, learning a very early lesson that the pain does subside. Extended ERP treatment involves a graduated series of such exposures, each a bit more challenging than the one before...