Sentence examples for real disorders from inspiring English sources

What we clearly know is that child psychiatric disorders are real disorders".

Western mental-health practitioners often prefer to believe that the 844 pages of the DSM-IV prior to the inclusion of culture-bound syndromes describe real disorders of the mind, illnesses with symptomatology and outcomes relatively unaffected by shifting cultural beliefs.

Philosophers of personal identity who are uneasy with relying on unstable intuitions in science-fictional thought experiments instead examine real disorders of memory, such as fugues, amnesias, and dissociation (Wilkes 1988; Sacks 1985, chapters 2, 12, 15; and compare the remarkable case studies in Campbell and Conway 1995), or cognitive-psychological theories of autobiographical memory.

ED patients could show this attitude towards the psychological test in the attempt to adapt themselves to the existing social norms, to hide the real disorders, or perhaps, according to the belief that doing so would shorten their treatment.

Is what one observer called "aspendicitis" a real disorder?

To the Editor: Dr. Perri Klass is correct: A.D.H.D. is a real disorder.

Psychopathy is of course a very real disorder and a lot more complex than portrayed on film.

"It is a real disorder, although nobody really knows what's happening," Dr. John N. Aucott, an infectious disease specialist in Lutherville, Md., said in an interview.

But there was once a time when multiple sclerosis was not considered a "real" disorder either, and those who continue to hold to the theory that chronic fatigue syndrome is a psychological illness are perhaps equally misinformed.

As a high school junior who was found to have attention deficit disorder less than a year ago, I am concerned that people will read "High-School Chemistry," by Anemona Hartocollis (Coping column, Feb. 13), and not realize the importance of treating A.D.D. like the real disorder that it is.

We should reject the presupposition that there is an important contrast between being a real disorder and being a product of social circumstances.