Sentence examples for status as an invalid from inspiring English sources

This protection of consciousness from conflict and distress was the 'primary gain' of the production of hysterical symptoms, although Freud noted the patient might then derive a 'secondary gain' from their elevated status as an invalid.

She has been certified as an invalid for the past six years.

His parents had refused to treat him as an invalid.

(Gefilte-fish jelly, like calf's-foot jelly, was always valued as an invalid's food).

Following the siege and conquest of Bendery (1769 70), however, he returned home as an invalid.

He appeared to be mildly retarded and described himself as an invalid unable to work.

She also said repeatedly that "Tupac would not have wanted to live as an invalid".

The only woman member is a Mrs. Kraigsman, who started to play as an invalid in a wheel chair.

Faced with declining health in his early 20s, Finsen spent much of his later life as an invalid.

Five years after his diagnosis he discovered he had been fired from his job in construction - regarded as an invalid.

"He didn't want people to see him as an invalid".