Sentence examples for a mental argument from inspiring English sources

The idea is to catch yourself in self-defeating thoughts like, "This is going really badly, I've really lost my touch," Dr. Seligman says, and then to build up a mental argument for why that isn't so.

It would be at this time that she'd get into a mental argument with herself, and hope to fall asleep before she truly turned mental.

Look at the process of forming an opinion as an internal argument with yourself, a mental debate, so to speak.

Roof's conduct during the trial didn't stray too far from what he had promised in a Dec. 16 letter to Gergel, where he wrote that he would not make a mental health argument, nor would he present additional evidence or call witnesses to testify on his behalf.

The salient differences between the two traditions accounts of behavior are that the Chinese does not focus on sentential items (actions, events, beliefs) particularly as conclusions of belief plus desire mental arguments.

Around 40,000 years ago, so the argument ran, humanity underwent a mental step-change.

In a series of closely related arguments the Mental Principle Argument, the Moral Principle Argument, and the Memory versus Recall Argument Crummell begins to describe this relationship.

Arguments and counter-arguments concerning the Internet's role in coping with a mental illness were given by 149 participants as open-ended answers and are displayed in Table  2.

There has been argument about whether the president suffers from a mental illness.

The argument has long been that suicide is a mental health issue – not an issue of gun safety.

Lesbirel, who suffers from a mental disorder, knocked on his neighbour's door looking for an argument, the court heard.