Sentence examples for mental ills from inspiring English sources

Research on hallucinogens as a treatment for mental ills has re-emerged in recent years, in small projects at places like the University of Arizona, the University of South Carolina, the University of California, Los Angeles, and Harvard.

Both men took into account mental ills that were the result of extreme experiences like war, overwrought passions like obsessive grief and miscues of reason, as well as troubles in brain development and nervous sensibility.

Some researchers in the 1970s and '80s suggested that nostalgia could worsen a problem that psychologists call self-discontinuity, which is nicely defined in " Suite: Judy Blue Eyes," by Stephen Stills: "Don't let the past remind us of what we are not now". This sense of loss and dislocation has repeatedly been linked to both physical and mental ills.

Though high-rise housing was initially commended for its views, larger rooms, sense of "urban privacy" and efficient use of concrete, it was later suggested that the designs gave rise to various social and mental ills: increased crime, suicide rates and behavioural problems.

Schumann, who died of tertiary syphilis but whose earlier mental ills would now, in all likelihood, be chalked up to bipolar disorder, was game for the whole range of 19th-century treatments: hydrotherapy, hypnosis, phlebotomy, even an early form of talk therapy.

Rather than melatonin excess or lack acting as a direct cause of mental ills, Dr. Lewy believes the hormoneserves as "a marker for what's going on in the brain, the result of many biochemical processes". Recently Dr. Lewy has been studying blind persons and has found that they have different melatonin rhythms than those who can see.

Stigma associated with both poverty and mental illness serves to reinforce the vicious cycle of poverty and mental ill-health.

Homeless women face particularly high levels of mental ill health.

Mental ill health is a truly devastating concern.

Mental ill health among academics and graduate students is rife.

Just how much these effects account for mental ill-health or, indeed, how mental ill-health is defined and measured, are subjects worthy of informed debate.