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The Teenage Cancer Trust said the psychological distress from changes to appearance caused by cancer and treatment were often overlooked. 

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Making a claim to an insurance company can be worse than the distress of the original incident, according to Which?, as it launches a rare type of action against the sector.

From BBC

The Times spoke with the Georgia resident who is suing the NFL for $100 million over the ‘severe emotional distress’ he says he suffered when Shedeur Sanders dropped in the draft.

I also saw a female residents screaming in distress over male carers doing intimate personal care, due to chronic staff shortages.

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A distressing docufiction, the film is a candid dramatization of her emergency phone calls.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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