This knowledge makes it essential to identify and treat those whose emotional pain is likely to become chronic, causing debilitating depression or even death.

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And that in turn will cause unnecessary cases of rotavirus infection, debilitating diarrhea and, in a few children, death.

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It is an incurable, debilitating disease that slowly renders sufferers increasingly immobile and eventually leads to death.

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It could be an unexpected death in the family, a loss of a job, a debilitating disease or disability, a divorce, or a natural disaster.

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