Sentence examples for a form of illness from inspiring English sources

Agnetha, who views serial killing as a form of illness rather than of evil, talks of "the frozen arctic sea that is the criminal brain".

"I appeal, then, to political leaders not to allow children to be considered as a form of illness," he said in his native German to a gathering of diplomats.

Conversion disorder can also be considered as a form of "illness behaviour"; i.e., the person uses the symptoms to gain a psychological advantage in social relationships, either by gathering sympathy or by being relieved of burdensome or stressful obligations and withdrawing from emotionally disturbing or threatening situations.

"To me," he writes, "the obvious conclusion is that the medical and psychiatric classification system is crying out for a category called 'empathy disorders.' "If evil is empathy erosion, and empathy erosion is a form of illness, then evil turns out to be nothing more than a particularly awful psychological disorder.

"It's a form of emotional illness that no one knew anything about.

Fanatical faith is close to being diagnosed as a form of mental illness.

Until 1973, the American Psychiatric Association considered homosexuality a form of mental illness.

This may be a form of mental illness, a disorder brought on by trauma and stress.

"My very being was defined as a form of mental illness in the diagnostic manual of disorders until 1974.

Like many in the field of psychopathy research, Kiehl is aware of the enormous social implications of accepting psychopathy as a form of mental illness.

All three are the victims of a trauma that resulted in a form of mental illness known as post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.