Sentences with phrase «mental affliction»

In other words, these litigants are being deliberately «stigmatized» with a mental affliction alleged to be a symptom of paranoid schizophrenia, when they have not in fact been professionally diagnosed.

Do you suffer from some bizarre compulsive mental affliction?

(Ramsay, fond of obvious and familiar visual metaphors, leans hard on the image of suffocation to reflect Joe's mental affliction.)

Widowed people also have a relatively increased risk of developing the mental affliction.

Her hospitalization lasted seven weeks, through a tormenting sequence of failed medication and terrifying mental affliction, culminating in a series of electro - convulsive treatments.

Gays should be given the opportunity to rid themselves of the mental affliction called h o m o s e x u a l i ty.

And, according to Ghaemi, the common thread between them all — Gandhi, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, J.F.K. and others — was some form of mental affliction.

As Milarepa, Tibet's great yogi observed, «The best signs of success [in practice] are a decrease in self - centeredness and the easing of mental afflictions.»

Do you want to learn how to meditate for success?Many have found great benefits in meditation, and it can help with many physical and mental afflictions as well.

Today, Betts says, more young people are being exposed to art therapy as it gains prominence in the field, and the United States is not alone in using art therapy as an effective approach to various physical and mental afflictions, including emotional distress, addiction, social development, anxiety, self - esteem issues, and more.

Psychological therapy includes techniques designed to aid in healing the mental afflictions that cause anorexia.

Not exact matches

So then in the Christian understanding of it not even death is the sickness unto death, still less everything which is called earthly and temporal suffering: want, sickness, wretchedness, affliction, adversities, torments, mental sufferings, sorrow, grief.

About ten years after the liberation — our lives having run for some time on a pretty even keel — I began to experience a variety of physical disabilities as well as mental / emotional afflictions; sometimes the two were difficult to distinguish.

As a teacher of English literature, I also tend to think of George Herbert and Nicholas Ferrar, William Cowper and John Newton (an asymmetrical friendship, thanks to Cowper's profound mental and spiritual afflictions and Newton's attentiveness to them), Flannery O'Connor and several of her correspondents.

Aching shoulders, sunburn and mental fatigue brought on by hours of constant rowing are just a few of the afflictions that Challenge competitors endure.

New results reported in this week's Science and at a genome meeting held last week at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on New York's Long Island suggest that our pedigreed canine companions may be a major help in finding the genetic keys to common human afflictions such as cancer, diabetes, and mental disorders.

These afflictions that occur on mental, physiological, and spiritual levels lead to an imbalance in the five core elements of the body, the panchatattvas.

Instead of any meaningful exploration of mental illness, the film exploits the affliction of its protagonist for a meandering romantic melodrama with an unconvincing final - act twist.

However, of the 170 teachers who took part, only 30 per cent confirmed there was adequate support within the school to support children dealing with mental health afflictions.

«A modern affliction called û Mommy Brain»,» she writes, «is a cheerful synonym for abrupt mental decline.

At the Deep Games Laboratory in DePaul's College of Computing and Digital Media, associate professor Doris Rusch and her students develop video games that raise awareness for mental illness and other afflictions, and could even contribute to treatment.

At the same time, there are other niche health issues where they really stand out such as chronic kidney disease, extremely obesity, home health care, and mental health afflictions.

Historically, mental health has not been taken as seriously as physical afflictions.

Particularly for low - income women, who suffer from these afflictions at disproportionate rates, access to mental health and substance abuse treatment is critical.