nervous disorder

Example Sentences

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“Dr. King had a tic, a nervous disorder that would present itself out of the blue,” he said.

From New York Times • Feb. 3, 2017

“By better techniques we see one nervous disorder after the other moving on from the functional into the organic level.”

From Nature • Oct. 25, 2016

Lee did not raise his children as a widower, although his wife, the former Frances Cunningham Finch, suffered from what was described as a nervous disorder, possibly bipolar disorder, before her death in 1951.

From Washington Post • Feb. 19, 2016

The local manor has been requisitioned as a hospital, though its owner, Montague Beckwith, is a casualty himself, his skin having broken out in a nervous disorder "like an exoskeleton, or a suit of scaly armour".

From The Guardian • Feb. 22, 2013

The doctors, who admitted their inability to cure the nervous disorder that was consuming the wife, had hopes of a sudden change and recommended to the husband that he should be extremely kind to her.

From Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) by Keniston, Hayward