Sentence examples for mental virus from inspiring English sources

He trains farmers and battles what he calls "developmentality", a mental "virus" of the modern world which he says has produced a collective mindlessness in India's elite and led to the crisis in rural India.

A person in the grip of a mental virus ends up inflicting violence on individuals and groups of people that they perceive as the 'enemy'enemy

For example, with the exception of a small percentage of individuals, Germany under National Socialism was in the grip of a mental virus.

It becomes extreme when a whole group of humans, a collective, nation or religion gets taken over by this mental virus infection.

This mental virus infection, the thoughts that some of them absorb when they go to religious schools or when they look at extremist messages on the Internet, take hold of their minds and infect them like a virus infects the body.

I was still a single mom, and even though my ex-husband was a great dad and very much a part of our daughter's life, the struggle of my early adulthood was like an incurable mental virus -- I couldn't shake the idea that everything could fall apart again.

Dawkins often thought of memes as mental viruses, selfish parasites on human minds; Dennett, by contrast, emphasizes that they can be benign, or even good for their hosts.

It is a coach's job to clear out any mental viruses that may affect not only his team, but those who would have influence over its fortunes.

Six women were excluded because of illnesses (human immunodeficiency virus, mental disorder and flu) and therefore 153 women completed the study.

Substance use behaviors are linked symbolically to a range of other stigmatized health conditions [e.g. human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), hepatitis C virus, mental illness], unsafe behaviors (e.g. impaired driving) and social problems (e.g. poverty, criminality) [ 18, 26– 29].

Some studies have claimed a link between exposure to the Borna disease virus and mental illness in humans, but such a connection has not been conclusively proven.