After minute investigation, the medical directors of the asylum decided that his
mental disease did not amount to insanity, nor would warrant his confinement, especially as its influence upon his spirits was unfavorable, and might produce the evil which it was meant to remedy.
And yet it is this very obliquity of thought and memory which makes
mental disease such a fascinating study.
For a few moments she appeared lost in thought, considering, probably, what new methods might be tried to withdraw her lover from so dark a fantasy, which, if it had no other meaning, was perhaps a symptom of
mental disease. Though of a firmer character than his own, the tears rolled down her cheeks.
And the result was, willy-nilly, that he was led away to a private sanitarium for
mental disease, while in the newspapers appeared pathetic accounts of his mental breakdown and of the saintliness of his character.
"Should my cousin Clifford," continued Judge Pyncheon, wholly undisturbed, "from mere malice, and hatred of one whose interests ought naturally to be dear to him,--a mode of passion that, as often as any other, indicates
mental disease,--should he refuse me the information so important to myself, and which he assuredly possesses, I shall consider it the one needed jot of evidence to satisfy my mind of his insanity.
My objections to this, that the present inhabitants of England are mentally fit, and could therefore not have descended from an ancestry of undiluted lunacy he brushes aside with the assertion that insanity is not necessarily hereditary; and that even though it was, in many cases a return to natural conditions from the state of high civilization, which is thought to have induced
mental disease in the ancient world, would, after several generations, have thoroughly expunged every trace of the affliction from the brains and nerves of the descendants of the original maniacs.
The son of a millionaire, like the son of a king, is seldom free from
mental disease. I am just mad enough to be a mountebank.
In the first place, you've three times the brains he has; in the second, if you are not mad, you needn't care a hang that he has got such a wild idea; and thirdly, that piece of beef whose specialty is surgery has gone mad on mental diseases, and what's brought him to this conclusion about you was your conversation to-day with Zametov."
I tell you, he's mad on mental diseases. But don't you mind him .
May 1998, and that condition developed into the severe
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But they were told they had to find evidence of
mental disease to accept diminished responsibility and decided she had planned the killing.
mental disease - any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention