"The segregation of the sexes, the veiling of the women... and all the other minute rules that govern and restrict contact between men and women, have the effect of making sex a prime mental preoccupation in the Arab world," Patai wrote.
In Panic Away, Barry McDonagh writes, "The sensation is caused by delayed perception and mental preoccupation.
Finally, in our view the use of patient reported outcomes on perceived burden in terms of psychological distress (anxiety, mental preoccupation) and functional limitations of postoperative restrictions during the rehabilitation is desirable.
Therefore, controlling your attention -- becoming more able to place it where you want it and keep it there, and more able to pull it away from what's bothersome or pointless (such as looping again and again through anxious preoccupations, mental grumbling, or self-criticism) -- is the foundation of changing your brain, and thus your life, for the better.
We propose that this sensation of the flow of time (duration), which may run in parallel with Orch OR events, is perceived as protoconsciousness of self during the integrated states 3 and 4 of Mind, when all other mental and physical preoccupations are quietened – at state 4 this would be notated 4 [1a−ᴗ1b−ᴗ2ᴗ3] – by self-awareness and/or meditation.
"The immediate impulse" that gave rise to her "preoccupation with mental activities," she explained, "came from [her] attending the Eichmann trial".
A report by the Connecticut child advocate said Lanza's severe and deteriorating mental health problems, his preoccupation with violence and access to his mother's weapons "proved a recipe for mass murder".
Although some overlapping in symptomatology occurs with that of depression, anxiety and PTSD, symptoms of separation distress, yearning, disbelief and a sense of meaninglessness are unique to PGD. 20 21 PGD involves preoccupation with mental anguish over the reality of the loss and an inability to consider a future without the deceased.
Queer politics and gay men's mental health became his overwhelming preoccupation, as evidenced in The Garden (1990) and Wittgenstein (1993).
