mental sickness
Example Sentences
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We don't have blood tests or other objective criteria to distinguish mental sickness from health.
From Reuters • May 17, 2013
He is, to all appearances, an easygoing six-footer with no troubles but how to get up in the morning, and he has never had a day of mental sickness in his 38 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
A game of romps with her four-footed friend would have done something to dissipate the mental sickness which was prostrating May's powers.
From A Houseful of Girls by Tytler, Sarah
In many cases, the genes—those vital units within the cell which determine growth and structure and all physical and mental characteristics—the genes were altered, so that children grew abnormally, with deformities or mental sickness.
From The Image and the Likeness by Campbell, John Scott
This may be a mental sickness, but it is too human or too mortal a sickness to be called solely a superstition.
From Eugenics and Other Evils by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
