crippling

“In that time when we were trying to find ourselves, Harley developed a crippling stage anxiety and I became a drug addict, basically,” Stephens said.

“And it certainly contributed to my absolutely crippling nerves for the first couple of months that we shot. I just was so aware that opportunities like this don’t come around a lot.”

When Hannah began sitting exams at school, at the age of 10, she started to experience panic attacks and "crippling anxiety".

He added the specific decision to lower the threshold at which employers will have to pay National Insurance was a "crippling hammer blow" to the sector.

Contact between Unrwa employees and Israeli officials will be banned, crippling its ability to operate in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.