My work has focused on understanding anxiety, stress and depression
as process variables (rather than syndromes of symptoms) and have
found great utility in constructing a model of coping
distress/desparate problem solving for people who are unable to
resolve anxiety/stress processes. My interest in the original post
was related to this issue of unresolvability, and it sounded (from
the news item) that the phenomenon was a good example of a problem
that had no realistic solution for the people who experienced it.
I will be doing quite a bit of reading on this issue; thanks again
for putting me on the trail of information.
A.J. Zolten
Univ. of Central Arkansas
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