Sentence examples for mentally sick from inspiring English sources

The campaign to declare political opponents mentally sick and to commit dissenters to mental hospitals began in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Thereby patients with non-psychotic mental disorders, or even persons who were not mentally sick, could be easily labelled with the diagnosis of sluggish schizophrenia.

'He became mentally sick,' says Kagona.

A lot of people are getting sick — mentally sick and physically sick just because they don't have access to energy.

"It was an accident — I was out of my mind, mentally sick," he said, sobbing even now.

No one can say exactly how many people were exposed to the attack, and how many will eventually become physically or mentally sick.

It is also obvious that people who are mentally ill, sick, and addicted to drugs or alcohol should not be in an environment where they are continually vulnerable to attack.

So culture can also make us physically and mentally sicker than we evolved to be.

But, according to Foucault, the new idea that the mad were merely sick ("mentally" ill) and in need of medical treatment was not at all a clear improvement on earlier conceptions (e.g., the Renaissance idea that the mad were in contact with the mysterious forces of cosmic tragedy or the 17th-18th-century 17th-18th-century 17th-18th-centuryreason).

I mean, my mom's very, very sick — mentally ill.

"This is what happens when one sick, mentally ill individual is able to bring such atrocity onto a whole nation.