The phrase "mental vulnerability" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a person's susceptibility to being emotionally hurt or wounded, either by their own thoughts and beliefs or by the actions or words of others. For example, "Mental vulnerability can cause people to feel overwhelmed in emotionally charged situations."
Neither of the previous two, Eddie Thornber who died in 2011, or Joe Lawton who died in 2012, had any history of mental vulnerability.
First of all - if this had got off the ground what were you trying to achieve?" Antigone of Thebes "You are a 'professional psychotherapist' yet you entertain the idea of using the alleged mental vulnerability of an opponent's wife for political gain?
"These gangs choose victims with a physical or mental vulnerability with their own accommodation," he said.
Chronic migraine and TTH areis associated with low mental health-related quality of life, high mental vulnerability, depression and neuroticism scores.
A sample of 547 subjects completed a questionnaire based on ICHD-1 and provided data on mental vulnerability (12-item scale), depression (MDI), neuroticism (Eysenck Personality Questionnaire) and mental health-related quality of life (SF-12).
The severe nature of the fractures and the long treatment period in combination with a high degree of socioeconomic consequences and a significantly worse QOL may be contributory factors leading to mental vulnerability.
A lot of people with mental vulnerabilities are the most amazing people.
Since 2001, the critics say, medical and scientific personnel have played a role, largely hidden, in helping to design and monitor interrogations that are intended to exploit the physical and mental vulnerabilities of detainees.
(See the 2009 New Yorker article by Atul Gawande on this topic). For those with documented pre-existing mental vulnerabilities, such as schizophrenia, the federal courts have outlawed supermax confinement as cruel and unusual punishment.
"It is pretty well established that solitary confinement has a very detrimental effect on a person's mental health and for people with pre-existing mental vulnerabilities it can be close to torturous," said Ron Hornberg of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, the nation's largest grassroots mental health advocacy group.
Mansfield acknowledges Darrow's groundbreaking work: "With the Tottenham Three [the trio of black men wrongly convicted of murdering PC Keith Blakelock in 1985], we struggled to persuade the court of appeal that judging mental vulnerabilities, as opposed to insanity, should include expert evidence.
