"Mental split" is a valid phrase that can be used in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the sensation of being overwhelmed with conflicting thoughts or ideas. For example, "She felt a mental split between her desire to stay in her comfort zone and her ambition to pursue her dreams."
Especially the subscales representing the psychosocial function "mental representation", split into the domains "emotional" (part of Discontinuity; 1.3) and "cognitive" (part of Incoherence; 2.3), showed a different pattern compared to the other subscales.
But in the real world most of us rely to some extent on what the economist Richard Thaler calls "mental accounting" — we split our money into different mental accounts, and treat it differently depending on what account it's in.
I guess, as a social worker, we're trained to kind of see the whole package, rather than separate little conditions... or physical health and mental health being split into two (Social Worker 02).
He described a group of diseases, the schizophrenias, the basic symptoms of which were a disordered train of mental associations and splitting or fragmentation of the personality.
In the end, it is revealed that Fassl has a mental condition that splits him into two parts: the religious innocent and the vengeful killer.
Additionally, Macizo and Herrera (2011) measured the compatibility effect using response times (versus accuracy in our study) and analyzed the results of both compatibility effect and mental rotation by splitting scores into high versus low ability groups (rather than using correlation, as in our study).
When split by mental illness status, this same gradient can be seen within those with and without mental illness, but there are significant differences in smoking rates by mental illness status for each household tenure type.
A split between mental health and other health care might sometimes simplify the organisation of services, but it is not in the interest of marginalised groups who have difficulties navigating complicated health care systems and whose main and initial focus is often obtaining care for general health problems rather than mental health care.
There is a real split-screen mental image here: Mrs. Clinton is winning states, by substantial margins, and yet she's not gaining in superdelegates and is being hounded out of the race.
Every day, these programs simultaneously squawk at us with push notifications and email updates, disorganizing and splitting our mental focus.
