Sentence examples for mental malady from inspiring English sources

One reason for the mainstreaming of "obsessed," in fact, may be the very mental malady with which we associate it.

"Farkhunda had a mental malady, and we have been seeing many mullahs and doctors to seek a cure for her mental illness," her mother said.

Apparently, nobody really knows if cellphones cause brain cancer, but I do believe that mobile devices are responsible for a new mental malady whose symptoms include general obliviousness, an inability to walk as quickly as the people behind you, thoughtlessness, partial catatonia, speaking obnoxiously loud and a willingness to share the intimate details of your life with strangers.

A second major role for substance P is in stimulating another mental malady, nausea.

The paper's editorial stance brought a stream of criticism from more mainstream African-American publications: the New York Age, calling it "putrescent", wrote that "Editor Trotter ... makes himself smelt if not felt"; another wrote that the Guardian was "carrying its cases too fast and too far", and that Trotter suffered from a "mental malady".

The assumption of an abnormal state as the natural condition of the human being has led to a multi-billion-dollar drug industry, where every psychological or mental malady one might conjure has its commensurate neurological chemical fix, or if the fix isn't in yet, someone is working on it.

Burns has the honesty and integrity to admit that the major mental pathologies – schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, depression inter alia – cannot be defined in the same way as physical diseases, and he cleaves to the currently fashionable view of psychiatry as seeking to understand mental maladies through the tripartite lens of the social, the psychological and the biological.

They claim to be relieving "diagnosable" psychological suffering ("mental maladies") rather than satisfying the aesthetic tastes of their clients, and insurance companies insist on being provided with that diagnosis before providing coverage for such surgeries.

With medical exams lasting 10 minutes or less, many primary care physicians don't have the time to ask the questions that can help diagnose mental maladies--and patients don't usually volunteer such information.

More commonly, they have accepted forms of what we might call "weak internalism," which allows that even though, necessarily, the person who makes a sincere moral judgment will feel some motivation to comply with it, that motivation can be overridden by conflicting desires and defeated by a variety of mental maladies, such as depression and weakness of will.

-- The VA is pursuing the addition of nearly 2,000 mental health care providers and specialists to treat the nearly 30percentt of Afghan, Iraq and Vietnam veterans afflicted with post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and other mental maladies.