Both are distressing events, but not something you would think you could insure yourself against.

I imagine that as you lived through the distressing events you were in a constant state of anxiety, hypervigilance and stress.

Repressors are stoics who respond to threat by blocking, denying, repressing, and forgetting distressing events.

At least four distressing events increased the likelihood by 36 per cent.

Sensitisers, by contrast, respond by readily recognising threat, have better recall of distressing events and 'let it all hang out': they approach rather than avoid situations.

For most of us, bereavement will be the most psychologically distressing experience we will ever have.

A friend who was visiting their home last night agreed it had been a distressing experience but insisted she was not interested in any further publicity.

Losing your keys in a room that stopped existing a few hours earlier must be a uniquely distressing experience.

Exile from a homeland, though obviously a distressing experience, can bring a writer into a fruitful, or at least a usefully problematic, relationship with an adopted language.

It can be a distressing experience.

There's also the distressing situation when couples divorce and grandparents can be caught in the crossfire.

It apologised for the 'distressing situation'.

Social workers engage with complex and distressing situations and work with people who are struggling.

More positive thoughts can encourage more creative responses to difficult problems or distressing situations.

Why should such a distressing symptom of disease be singled out for charges, rather than any other form of serious pain?

However, his distressing symptoms marked him out as an extreme case, and for that he blamed his parents.

It can also prevent a relapse of the most distressing symptoms.

It trivialises distressing symptoms that require professional expertise, rather than this shallow celebrity bandwagon.

The advance directive said that she should not be given food and that distressing symptoms should be controlled by pain relief, even if that might shorten her life.