mental disorder
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The story centers on Alice, an ordinary Middle American girl who begins to suffer from a mental disorder while enrolled at the University of Oklahoma.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
More than 34,000 inmates — more than a third of the California prison population — are considered to have some sort of serious mental disorder.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025
His defense contended that Edwards’ “autistic spectrum mental disorder … makes an individual susceptible to suggestion.”
From Slate • Mar. 6, 2025
In 2023, at the Court of Appeal the brothers' lawyers presented new expert opinion which said Witness Z had a lifelong mental disorder, which they said made his evidence unreliable.
From BBC • Dec. 17, 2024
It’s almost a mental disorder, but there’s a sort of scale.
From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia
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