Her resistance to her sisters' marriages, to male advances, to all forms of change escalates into a strange mental obsession — "Perfect as it was" is her mantra.
MeSH has had an entry for "alcoholism" since 1999, and references the 1992 definition. AA describes alcoholism as an illness that involves a physical allergy (where "allergy" has a different meaning than that used in modern medicine. ) and a mental obsession.
There is nothing amusing about extreme violence, psychiatric hospitals, mental illness, obsession, depression, and revenge, and I regret my role smirking at it all.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder featuring obsessions (intrusive ideas) and compulsions which are repetitive behaviors performed through rigid rituals.
The agent knew the judge's reputation as a cushy sentencer and said that he would consider it a victory if the defendant received at least three years -- one day in jail for every day the agent had spent in the mental jail of obsession with another person's crime.
F.B.I. agents, moreover, have shown that Dr. Ivins, a church musician and amateur juggler whom colleagues cherished, hid from them a shadow side of mental illness, alcoholism, secret obsessions and hints of violence.
The recurrent phenotypes are symmetry/ordering, hoarding, contamination/cleaning, and obsessions/checking (1) Another phenotype is the 'pure obsessional' with sexual, somatic, religious obsessions and mental rituals (2).
Liquid Room, 6-28 August In tandem with Jessie Cave's knockout show about her obsessive love life, Sofie Hagen's best newcomer award-winning Bubblewrap – about mental health and teenage obsession with Westlife – raised the bar for intimate comedy confessionals.
I really enjoy playing mental cases, people with obsession and delusion.
In a few years, Zelda had danced herself into an obsession, and mental illness erupted through the cracks of her physically exhausted body.
