Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second reason people may consider suicide. This may also occur when one feels unable to live up to the expectations of others--the expectations that may have also come to define one's own sense of self-esteem. The third is the situation in which a major mental disturbance leads to delusional thinking and loss of reality testing, leaving one vulnerable to irrational concepts of the consequences of self-destructive behavior...
...handed over too quickly to professional caretakers before trust is established. Even so, no one not professionally trained should try to be responsible for dealing with suicidal individuals, and instead should enlist professional help as soon as possible. The best thing to do is to call the Mental Health Service, talk to the clinician on call and get advice as to how to proceed...
...worth it? "If you lined her up against the 10 best athletes in the NCAA, she doesn't overwhelm you with her muscles," says pro-basketball coach Nancy Lieberman-Cline. "But her mental capacity to play in the big games, to compete at the highest level--and never lose--is unique. Some people compete when it's convenient. Chamique steps up when her team needs her." In a Jordannaire display in January, she and her team put an end to the 54 home-game winning streak of archrival University of Connecticut--with Holdsclaw scoring 25 points even though debilitated...
...parallel legacy is as one of the most troubled and eccentric rock stars of his era--which, given the profession and the era, is saying something. It was only a few years ago that he seemed to have finally emerged from nearly a quarter-century's worth of debilitating mental illness. (He refused to get out of bed for long stretches of the late '60s and '70s, and in the '80s and early '90s he put his emotional and professional life in the 24-hour-a-day care of a man who was not, perhaps, the most scrupulous psychiatrist...
...member of the Bellofatto family, I am responding to the eulogy for Sean Sellers written by Bianca Jagger [NOTEBOOK, Feb. 15]. [Jagger described Sellers' execution for murder, stating that he suffered from a mental disorder.] Before murdering his parents, Sellers at the age of 16 killed Robert Bowers, a convenience-store clerk who wouldn't sell him beer. Sellers later murdered his own mother Vonda Bellofatto and his stepfather Paul Lee Bellofatto in their sleep. It was not until after Sellers' final bid for appeal was turned down by the state of Oklahoma and his capital-punishment sentence became inevitable...