When such dreams are frustrated, this bedrock belief in upward mobility predisposes some -- especially those with a tenuous grasp on mental health -- to psychological "strain".
When such dreams are frustrated, this bedrock belief in upward mobility predisposes some -- especially those with a tenuous grasp on mental health -- to psychological "strain". In rare instances, severe strain helps forge mass shooters, he wrote.
The prolonged isolation, extremes of hot and cold temperatures, interminable stretches of monotony punctuated by flashes of explosive violence can throw even the most mentally sound off balance and quickly overcome those whose mental grip is already tenuous.
This may have seemed like a tenuous basis for divining Amy's mental state on the day of the shooting, but investigators wondered if Amy had seen the article as a kind of instruction manual.
And as age makes our mental and physical health more tenuous, our ability to weather the slings and arrows of pain diminishes too.
Last week Dr. Richard Friedman, a professor of psychiatry, explained that the link between mental illness and violence is tenuous at best and accounts for less than 5% of overall violence at worst.
Mr. Codey has raised alarms about lagging mental health care, steroids in high school sports and the state's tenuous finances.
The tenuous social safety net in modern America is especially deficient when it comes to mental health.
Perhaps it could be argued that an enhancement of perceived aptitude would aid in mental wellbeing, but medical practitioners need to be wary of walking the tenuous line between treating real illness and over treating perceived inadequacy.
Hers is a luminous tale of passion and betrayal, encompassing the political unrest that racked Sierra Leone in the late 1960s and the ruinous civil war of the 1990s, as well as the days of tenuous quiet when those who managed to stay alive struggled to cope with the physical and mental scars of those years.
