On that evening last October, Mrs. Mackey added another N.F.L. wife to her growing network of women who seek her guidance and support as their husbands deteriorate mentally.
It is also the first to study the matter prospectively, first finding the disordered sleeping pattern in healthy people without dementia, and then checking, years later, to see if they were more likely than regular sleepers to deteriorate mentally.
As Torrance begins to deteriorate mentally - having some frightening visions of his own, all leading him to the notion of killing his family - the sprawling hotel, buried under huge snowdrifts, begins to feel more and more claustrophobic.
She is beginning to deteriorate mentally, drinking quite a lot of sherry though she never drank at all while his father was alive, but she is still lucid enough so that he takes her out in the city fairly often, to dinner or to the theatre, which she loves; twice he has taken her to Europe.
Claustrophobic in a Big Space As Torrance begins to deteriorate mentally -- and to have some frightening visions of his own, all leading him to the notion of killing his family -- the sprawling hotel, buried under huge snowdrifts, begins to feel more and more claustrophobic.
It took those infamous 1940's terry-cloth monkey studies to prove what every parent instinctively knows: children deprived of affection deteriorate, mentally and physically.
His personal troubles continued: his son Walter died while overseas, his wife Maria White Lowell died in October 1853, his father became deaf, and his sister Rebecca was deteriorating mentally such that she often went without speaking for weeks.
That Hess acts in an abnormal manner, suffers from loss of memory, and has mentally deteriorated during this trial, may be true.
