All of this took place not long into what was for me a three-year mental breakdown – a hell of severe depression, panic attacks and psychic torment that, in a sense, I spent the rest of my 20s recovering from.
For the psychiatrists who have examined him, Glenn Paul Wright, now 32, is suffering from a severe personality disorder, the legacy of the torment which he suffered as a child.
For a spark of hope Mr. Fagan offers the example of Chimor, a kingdom in coastal Peru tormented by El Niño flooding and severe droughts throughout the Medieval Warm Period.
It's tough being a genius, but also tough to be an antipodean Elijah, tormented by the imperfections of the society, hurling severe arrows of lightning down on our heads.
The past continued to torment her, though, she said, and she became gripped by severe anorexia.
In fact, OCD is a severe and crippling illness, and one defined as much by the mental torment of recurring strange thoughts as physical actions such as repeated hand-washing.
But with Venezuela suffering from a severe economic crisis, this mental institution has almost no drugs to control the afflictions tormenting its patients.
Sows confined in them typically suffer from severe health problems, including infections, weakened bones, overgrown hooves, poor social interaction, lameness, and the psychological torment of being immobilized for months and years on end.
