Sentence examples for mental instability are from inspiring English sources

His attorney, Peter Frankel, insists that reports of ODB's mental instability are exaggerations.

One thing that could be usefully addressed is that many state records on disqualifying involuntary commitments and adjudicated mental instability are not being submitted to the federal background check system.

The gun violence incidents related to mental instability are the incidents that gain the most media attention - mass, rampage-style shootings such as those in Newtown, CT or Aurora, CO.

The signs of mental instability were by this point hard to explain away.

Don Carlos was sickly and soon showed signs of mental instability, being given to outbursts of violence.

The depiction of her emotional and mental instability is an unsparing portrait of a tortured soul.

Among his contemporaries, recognition of Lowell's mental instability was inextricably bound up with awe of his talent.

Though it also alleges that Goffin's womanising and mental instability were causes of the breakup, he happily attended the opening of the musical.

Her mental instability was noted by friends including the author Virginia Woolf who described her in 1932 as a "poor raddled distressing woman, takes drugs".

The in-depth look at what was called Mr. Durst's mental instability was crucial, Mr. Odom said: "They were effective in saying that some of this abnormal behavior you and I would never be involved in, he would, and that does not mean that he was a murderer.

Stannard acknowledges a Romantic paradox in this book and the ones that soon followed—"the 'insanity' of visionary perception locates a higher truth than the sanity of rationalism"—even while he makes clear Spark's fierce refusal to "have her work talked down as 'mad.' Anyone intimating mental instability was her enemy for life".