Sentence examples for mental poverty from inspiring English sources

Padre Padrone is about the mental poverty that arises from a paucity of language, and the relationship it has to physical poverty.

This is partly an old man's lament for innocent childhood days spent gathering wood, selling flowers, and chasing fish in the creek, but also part of his discourse against consumerism, egoism and what he calls "mental poverty".

It builds through all sorts of nuances towards some piercingly sad scenes of hospitalised patients, dosed to stupefaction, whose difficulties are visibly more than mental – poverty, violence, accident, the world crowding in.

Hillary seemed convinced that she would overcome this financial hurdle — "I believe mental poverty is a self-inflicted condition," she said, as if to reify the expedition into existence.

McQueen The prison population, mental illness, poverty, education.

Many people don't realise that mental health, poverty, austerity and education are intertwined.

But when it comes to mental health, poverty is still the elephant in the room.

May 6 2015 May 9 201515 "Being Here... / This Time" is the last in an evolving series of dance works investigating the interrelatedness of mental illness, poverty, and addiction.

Dorothy, born in Jamaica in 1915, has had a turbulent life — abusive father, four children by four different men, recurring mental illness, poverty, discrimination — but she's a survivor.

We can remove the stigma of a felony conviction as these women and men try to overcome drug addiction, mental illness, poverty and other challenges.

Mental illness, poverty, the marginalized, the voiceless, the untouchables: These labels have an isolating effect that keeps individuals hidden and entangled in the chains of stigma.