"mental cost" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you are referring to the effort or stress required to do something. For example, "The mental cost of preparing for the exam was much higher than expected."
Driving is out, as it's six hours-plus on paper, which doesn't count the typical traffic and the detours, or the mental cost of knowing that it really wouldn't take that long except that no direct route exists.
However, it was an epic battle for which there has been a huge physical and mental cost: the Wallabies looked absolutely cooked from the off against Scotland last week.
Cover could wash away that mental cost of downloading more apps, allowing other devs to find an audience.
From the perspective of intergenerational conflict, the psychological and mental cost of devotion essentially reflects the contradictory characteristic of the relationship and structure (Connidis 2015).
Students are used to sourcing information rapidly, with minimum financial and mental cost, and to be entertained in the process.
This is because there is no physical or mental "cost" paid, or that the cost had a return of satisfaction.
And although the term "social micropayments" is bandied about on Flattr's website, its founder prefers to call them donations or "money sharing".Flattr tackles the problem of Mr Shirky's transactional mental costs in two ways.
For simplicity we assume that the costs of effort can be described by a quadratic cost function, (C a)=frac{1}{2}and), and reflect the physical or mental costs incurred by the agent.
Second, the costs in this study only reflected direct mental health cost and not total health care costs because the US-SCAP study did not collect data on non-psychiatric resource utilization or indirect costs.
Philosophical and biological questions aside, mental illnesses cost billions in health care costs, disability benefits, economic underproductivity, the criminal justice system and foster care, among others.
Mental illnesses cost employers and the American economy with direct health care costs and indirect costs, including absenteeism, diminished effectiveness on the job, loss of productivity and disability.
