It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil trick played upon the sick brain by the inhabiting psyche, comes to resemble the diabolical discomfort of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room. And because no breeze stirs this... The Biology of mental disorders. - Page 9Full view - About this book
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...physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb. It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil...of being imprisoned in a fiercely overheated room" (50). The torpid, immobile, joyless, defeated, hellishly overheated body of the depressive patient... | |
| Lisa Barnes Lampman, Michelle D. Shattuck - 1999 - 340 pages
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| Lewis Wolpert - 1999 - 216 pages
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| Jessica Portner - 2001 - 132 pages
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...physical pain. But it is not an immediately identifiable pain, like that of a broken limb. It may be more accurate to say that despair, owing to some evil...the victim begins to think ceaselessly of oblivion. The blurred boundaries between a normal, passing emotion and an intractable, devastating disease, coupled... | |
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