Example sentences of "life event " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the need for help arose from a specific pressure such as damaged or lost equipment or from a life event like moving house or the birth of a child . |
| 2 | Life Event Stress Score |
| 3 | This case illustrates the sense of hopelessness that may develop in the unemployed , especially when finding a job appears to be in almost impossible task , and how this may create other problems , particularly when a major life event occurs , such as the break-up of an important relationship . |
| 4 | Typically , he will have just encountered a major and overwhelming life event , such as loss of a spouse through death or separation , be in a state of ‘ shock ’ and have resorted to self-poisoning or self-injury as an acute reaction to the event . |
| 5 | The prevailing view , however , is less extreme , seeing the menopause as a natural life event , and that the problems women experience in middle age stem from external social causes . |
| 6 | Our stress levels suddenly rise markedly when we go through a major life event such as perhaps a divorce , serious accident , or death in the family . |
| 7 | This may be from chronic stress , where our stress tap drips constantly a small amount at a time for months or years , or from sudden stress , when we encounter a specific fear , problem or major life event , which causes the stress tap to turn full on . |
| 8 | Also any major life event is stressful and this experience may precipitate the first symptoms of anxiety . |
| 9 | To take unambiguous examples from big hits , the death scene at the end of Bonnie and Clyde ( 1967 , NA rentals $27.8 million ) is clearly an instance of ‘ realism ’ , very physical and immediate and based on a real life event . |
| 10 | Research has shown recently that erm a life event , such as you described can precipitate depression in someone who 's self esteem is low and I think this is where we women are more vulnerable . |
| 11 | Second , just as the onset of disability can not be seen as a one-off life event , neither can the intervening impact of ageing be considered as a self-contained life event , or even a series of discrete life events . |
| 12 | Second , just as the onset of disability can not be seen as a one-off life event , neither can the intervening impact of ageing be considered as a self-contained life event , or even a series of discrete life events . |
| 13 | Rather , while ageing is often experienced as a disruptive life event , some people find that they are able to accommodate themselves to the changes — both practical and emotional — in their lives . |
| 14 | Doug 's year-long affair has been the roughest life event I 've ever faced , harder even than my mother 's death , ’ she says . |
| 15 | There is no evidence that stress causes addiction as such although a stressful life event may trigger latent addictive disease . |
| 16 | This argument is reinforced by observations that IBS patients consult more often than others after a stressful or threatening life event . |
| 17 | He illustrates this point using the life event of separation . |
| 18 | But Brown and Harris 's Life Event and Difficulties Schedule ( LEDS ) would not lump all births together in this way . |
| 19 | However , only one in five of the women who experienced a severe life event or major difficulty subsequently developed depression . |
| 20 | Less than one in five people experiencing a severely threatening event or long-term difficulties will develop depression ( Brown and Harris , 1978 ) , but from a review of ten community surveys of depression using the same Life Event and Difficulty Schedule , Brown et al. |
| 21 | Brown and Birley ( 1968 ) found 46 per cent of their sample of schizophrenic patients to have experienced an independent life event ( one unlikely to have been a consequence of the previous illness ) in the three weeks before onset , compared to 14 per cent of a comparison group of factory and office workers in the three weeks prior to their interview . |
| 22 | However , while it might seem that in high EE homes , people with schizophrenia would be particularly vulnerable to relapse after a life event , Leff and Vaughn ( 1980 ) failed to find an excess of events in the weeks preceding relapse for patients in high EE homes . |
| 23 | In fact , nine of the ten patients experiencing a life event in the latter study were in low EE homes . |
| 24 | They conclude that the onset or relapse of schizophrenia is associated either with high EE or with an independent life event . |
| 25 | Before serious thought can be given to designing general population interventions , there needs to be an accumulation of clear results from experimental targeted interventions for people coping with one particular life event or chronic strain . |