mental disorder
Example Sentences
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The Social Security Administration classifies anxiety as a subset of mental disorders that constitute a total of 3.9% of disability claims.
From Los Angeles Times
The story centers on Alice, an ordinary Middle American girl who begins to suffer from a mental disorder while enrolled at the University of Oklahoma.
She added that that "disability will not qualify anyone for assisted dying, nor will mental disorder".
From BBC
And the committee itself has highlighted a range of areas which need attention, including rules around residency and how to fairly assess the decision-making capacity of people with mental disorders.
From BBC
A psychological assessment showed no evidence of Saadi having a diagnosed mental disorder and he had only features of autistic spectrum disorder.
From BBC
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