Whereas alcohol and substance abuse has a chemical addiction, the buzz from gambling is a mental state of mind which is desirable.
He was all but forgotten when he died, in poverty, in 1840, but, still today, looking at a Friedrich can feel like a sideways tumble into a mental state that you may recognize against your will: hypersensitive, enrapt, and dire.
So when I see newly divorced patients in my office, I encourage them to hold off on plastic surgery until they're in a good mental state.
"We were both in a very strange mental state and had been for a while, " she said.
Such a plea means he would be committed indefinitely to a state mental hospital if a jury agrees, but it would also open up his mental-health records to prosecutors.
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Nielsen has taken the art of deadpan into uncharted territory, marrying a polite, paternal manner to a state of acute mental shutdown.
If Holmes was on medication, that may have made him appear more drowsy, making it more difficult to get a complete picture of his mental state, she said.
Before the war he had dropped out of college, but he went back to university and collected his bachelor's degree, did some post-graduate work and ended up running a mental health programme at Florida State University.
The bill allows school districts to require "mental health first aid" training for school personnel and creates a task force to examine the state's mental health system.
The prosecution says she has a borderline personality disorder and her mental state is variable.
By 2.00pm the following afternoon, when England finally sealed victory over Zimbabwe by a massive 150-run margin, however, 'raving reporter' might have been a more accurate description of my mental state.
If Mr. Jackson had gone to trial, could his mental state have served as a defense to the criminal intent necessary to conviction?
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That winter, I packed a suitcase and took an empty, overheated Greyhound bus to the state mental hospital, where I trudged through blinding drifts of cold and was shown to a room in a staff dormitory.
The bill also addresses mental health and school security measures, including gun restrictions for people who've been committed to mental health facilities and restoration of a state grant for school safety improvements.
Kazmierczak had no arrest record and no known history of mental illness, and he had a valid state-required firearm ID card, so he had no problem buying the guns, one law enforcement source said.
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The results showed that the people who had higher levels of infection had a 25 percent increase in the risk of a low score on a common test of cognition called the Mini-Mental State Examination.
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New York required mental health professionals to tell state authorities if a patient threatens to use a gun illegally.
People deemed "likely to engage in conduct that would result in serious harm to self or others" by mental-health professionals would be added to a state database for checks.
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Although I have actively avoided most coverage of the Sandy Hook tragedy in Connecticut, I have spent a great amount of time assessing the present state of mental health care and access in the United States.
Nuchereno is compiling Ortiz's mental health records with an eye toward filing a motion in state court to vacate his conviction.
The defense can raise mitigating factors, such as his mental state, to try to persuade jurors to impose a sentence of life in prison instead.
Giffords' visit came one day after Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy set a two-month deadline for a special commission to address the state's gun laws, mental health policies and public security issues.
By comparison, last winter's mental experiment was a breeze: I spent hours in a mesmerized state watching Bobby Clampett swing in super slow motion, on his "Impact Zone: Personal Golf Mastery System" DVD.
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There's no official term for milder forms of "nervous breakdown, " though some patients and clinicians wish there was still a name for a temporary state of being overwhelmed by outside forces without an underlying mental illness.
Therapists, doctors and other mental health professionals will be required to tell state authorities if a patient threatens to use a gun illegally.
While the exact mental state that allows the placebo effect to kick in remains a mystery, the belief that something will work seems to be a necessary ingredient.
The hearing on Wednesday will delve into Mr. Todd's mental state in the days leading up to his death when a practitioner from a wellness clinic who counseled Todd is scheduled to testify.
The defence had argued Bikubi was mentally ill when he carried out the killing, with a scan of his brain showing lesions which "probably contributed to an abnormal mental state".
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