The wounds of silence-sexual problems can wreck people's lives

Related words:

1. stigma 恥辱，（尤其指不公正的）惡名 e.g. There is no?longer?any stigma?to?being?divorced.
2. unwanted pregnancy 意外懷孕
3. alleviate = metigate =relieve v 緩解，減輕
4. shed v 驅(qū)除，擺脫 E.g. I'm going on a?diet?to?see?if I can shed?(=?become?thinner?by?losing)?a few?pounds.
5. ecstatic adj 狂喜的 E.g. The new?president?was?greeted?by an ecstatic?crowd.
6. agreeable = pleasant adj 令人愉悅的 E.g. We?spent?a most agreeable?evening?by the?river.

Vocabulary:

1. nip things in the bud 防患于未然 E.g. Early treatment often nips thing in the bud.
2. let alone 更不必說（用于否定句表強(qiáng)調(diào)） E.g. Some?people?never?even?read?a?newspaper, let?alone?a?book.
3. turn a blind eye to sth 視而不見 E.g. Management often turn a?blind?eye?to?bullying?in the?workplace.
4. dysfunctional adj 失調(diào)的，不正常的 E.g. a dysfunctional?family
5. triviality n 瑣碎的事 E.g. I'm a?busy?man - don't?bother?me with trivialities.
6. harbinger 預(yù)兆（一般指不好事情） E.g. a harbinger?of?doom
7. both a cause and a consequence 既是原因又是結(jié)果
8. tackle = address=solve=deal with= cope with
9. downside 缺點(diǎn)；upside 優(yōu)點(diǎn)
10. adolescence 青年時(shí)期 adolescent 青年人
11. scant = rare adj 幾乎沒有的 E.g. bears scant relation to real life.
12. civil servant 公務(wù)員

Nice sentence:

1. A generation ago, being depressed or anxious-let alone having serious mental-health problems-meant suffering mostly in silence. Stigma meant few people wanted to talk. Doctors turned a blind eye. Most saw mental illness as regrettable but not something that made much difference to a patient's physical health. These days, the stigma has faded, if not entirely disappeared. Early treatment often nips things in the bud.
2. Critics may object that sex is everywhere in modern culture, and the last thing anyone needs is more of it. But this misses the point.
3. Sexual problems should be a core part of medical education. Only then will doctors begin to discuss them routinely-as they do with heart disease and other health-related matters. A lot of suffering can be alleviated by simply giving people frank information about what is happening to them and why. Additionally, a few sessions of therapy which patients need are now packaged in apps.