You’ve probably heard the term “emotional distress” connected with lawsuits in personal injury cases. It is one of the factors that injury victims often receive compensation for. But what exactly is ...

, and who signal for distress. Sure, sometimes they make some boneheaded mistakes. However, the outdoors is unpredictable, and things happen. Once, my kids and I got caught up in a very unexpected ...

SOS is a universal distress signal used to ask for help in emergencies. Many people think it stands for 'Save Our Souls' or ...

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

Practice these physical, cognitive, and emotional strategies to feel more in control when dysregulation threatens.

Distress tolerance refers to the ability to withstand negative emotions. Low distress tolerance occurs when someone displays symptoms such as anxiety and depression. Sometimes, people with low ...

It's no secret that anxiety conditions and depression co-occur. In fact, most researchers agree they co-occur at least 60 percent of the time. They're so interrelated that most antidepressants are ...

I began practicing psychotherapy during the Reagan administration. Thirty years went by before distress about politics became a clinical issue for any of my clients. I remember the moment it first ...

I sit on an ethics review committee at the Albany Med Health System in New York state, where doctors and nurses frequently bring us fraught questions. Consider a typical case: A 6-month-old child has ...

From New York to Tokyo to Munich, banks last week reported bigger-than-expected losses related to distressed U.S. commercial property loans, raising fresh fears that the pain being felt in the country ...

Spinal muscular atrophy with respiratory distress (SMARD) is a rare genetic condition that typically affects infants and children. It causes muscle weakness and breathing problems. Spinal muscular ...