Examples of distress in the following topics:
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- Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is a serious reaction to various forms of injuries or acute infection to the lung.
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), also known as respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) or adult respiratory distress syndrome, is a serious reaction to various forms of injuries or acute infection to the lung.
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- To avoid the negative impacts of bankruptcy, individuals and companies in financial distress can implement certain financial management techniques.
- To avoid the negative impacts of bankruptcy, individuals and companies in financial distress have a number of bankruptcy alternatives.
- Financial distress typically arises when a high amount of fixed or unavoidable costs exists relative to the amount of cash flow or income.
- For a company, there are many options of avoiding financial distress, including:
- Devise a management plan when a company is in financial distress
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- Stress can be either positive (eustress) or negative (distress).
- Importantly, the body itself cannot physically discern between distress or eustress; the distinction is dependent on the experience of the individual experiencing the stress.
- Distress, or negative stress, has negative implications, and is usually perceived to be potentially overwhelming and out of a person's control.
- Any event can cause either distress or eustress, depending on how the individual interprets the information.
- For example, traumatic social events may cause great distress, but also eustress in the form of resilience, coping, and fostering a sense of community.
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- Equity theory proposes that individuals who perceive themselves as either under-rewarded or over-rewarded will experience distress, and that this distress leads to efforts to restore equity within the relationship.
- When individuals find themselves participating in inequitable relationships, they become distressed.
- The more inequitable the relationship, the more distress individuals feel.
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- When people feel that they are unable to manage or control life changes that are caused by cancer, they are said to be in distress.
- Distress has become increasingly recognized as a factor that can reduce the quality of life of cancer patients, and some evidence indicates that extreme distress is associated with poorer clinical outcomes.
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- Specific phobias involve excessive, distressing, and persistent fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation.
- A person diagnosed with a specific phobia (formerly known as a "simple phobia") experiences excessive, distressing, and persistent fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation (such as animals, enclosed spaces, elevators, or flying) (APA, 2013).
- Exposure to the object of the phobia nearly always elicits extremely distressing symptoms of anxiety, either immediately ("situationally bound") or after some time delay ("situationally predisposed").
- The person either avoids the phobic situation(s) or else endures it with extreme distress.
- The avoidance and/or distress associated with the phobia must interfere significantly with the person's academic or social functioning.
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- For example, if an employee was given a salary increase but a peer was given a larger salary increase for the same amount of work, the first employee would evaluate this change, perceive an inequality, and be distressed.
- When individuals find themselves participating in inequitable relationships, they will become distressed.
- The more inequitable the relationship, the more distress they will feel.
- According to equity theory, the person who gets "too much" and the person who gets "too little" both feel distressed.
- Individuals who discover they are in inequitable relationships will attempt to eliminate their distress by restoring equity.
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- The 10 personality disorders mentioned in the DSM-5 involve pervasive and enduring personality styles that differ from cultural expectations and cause distress and/or conflict with others.
- causes them and/or others around them "clinically significant" distress and impairment in important areas of functioning;
- That said, though personality disorders are typically associated with significant distress or disability, they are also ego-syntonic, which means that individuals do not feel as though their values, thoughts, and behaviors are out of place or unacceptable.
- In addition, individuals with personality disorders may not even be able to recognize that their personality is causing distress or issues with other people.
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- Debt restructuring is a process that allows a company or individual in financial distress to reduce and renegotiate its delinquent debts in order to improve or restore liquidity and continue its operations.
- These deals typically occur with large companies in financial distress, and often result in these companies being taken over by their principal creditors.
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- The stressor must cause significant distress in almost any person and be outside the range of "normal" human experience.
- Persistent re-experiencing - One or more of these must be present in the victim: flashback memories, recurring distressing dreams, subjective re-experiencing of the traumatic event(s), or intense negative psychological or physiological response to any objective or subjective reminder of the traumatic event(s).
- Significant impairment - The symptoms reported must lead to "clinically significant distress or impairment" in major domains of life activity, such as social relations, occupational activities or other "important areas of functioning".
- Exposure therapy is a type of cognitive behavioral therapy that involves assisting trauma survivors to re-experience distressing trauma-related memories and reminders in order to facilitate habituation and successful emotional processing of the trauma memory.