Only 29 percent are married and nearly half remain childless, to their intense distress.

Habitual cutting is a way of managing intense emotional distress.

"This enforced awareness makes the book as impossible to put down as it is to read without intense distress."

We landed, in fine, more dead than alive, after four days of intense distress, upon the beach opposite Roanoke Island.

They banter briefly and she convinces him to come visit her family on their walnut farm, despite the intense distress this offer causes her parents.

To get a diagnosis the person has to experience 'persistent and intense distress' about their gender.

It was the frightful weather, of course, and the intense distress Dorothy was suffering couldn't help transmitting itself.

They say the standard method of executing people could lead to paralysis that masks intense distress.

But they do not exhibit intense distress, they manage to carry on their lives with little difficulty and they never become deeply depressed.