Sentence examples for psychiatric breakdowns from inspiring English sources

The low frequency of psychiatric breakdowns in Iraq — about 8 in 1,000 service members have been evacuated for psychiatric problems, fewer than in previous wars — suggests that few people with significant mental illness make it far in the service.

In addition, the maintenance of high morale has a striking effect on casualty rates, for, when morale is poor, soldiers are likely to suffer psychiatric breakdowns, and malingering is more prevalent.

Trying to avoid the steady glare of Mr. Mullet, 66, Mrs. Mullet testified that after her husband, Eli, had psychiatric breakdowns, her father-in-law first told her to sit in his lap and kiss him, then days later had her sleep with him nightly for what he called marriage counseling.

In a recent report, Human Rights Watch (HRW) argued that the penal system is "not only serving as a warehouse for the mentally ill but is also acting as an incubator for worse illness and psychiatric breakdowns".Fifty years ago, says HRW, more than half a million Americans lived in public psychiatric hospitals.

"A psychiatric breakdown under the strain," concluded Theodore White.

But 19th-century Americans had no such understanding that exposure to battle sometimes resulted in psychiatric breakdown or debilitation.

"This is the thing, we all talk about Tony Blair, saying 'he won three elections', but he was very lucky – the Tory party was having a psychiatric breakdown," he argued.

A shift away from a biological focus would give succour to psychiatry's critics, who question society's reliance on the use of drugs or interventions such as electroconvulsive therapy to treat psychiatric breakdown.

The often-cited reduction of hospital admissions for psychiatric breakdown during the blitz was probably due more to mentally disturbed patients being evicted to make way for the war wounded and to changes in the way patients were diagnosed than to any improvement in morale as a result of solidarity under attack.

Not far away is the site of Mr. Pullman's first orchard, planted when he was 13, a few years after his mother, a nurse, had her first psychiatric breakdown, and his father, a doctor, was dealing with problems of his own.

Conversations with friends and family members and a review of detailed medical records depict an intelligent and articulate young man lying to doctor after doctor, physicians issuing hasty diagnoses, and psychiatrists continuing to prescribe medication — even increasing dosages — despite evidence of his growing addiction and psychiatric breakdown.