Word: overtness
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...striving to increase understanding of this subject I speak directly from my own life because it is so rare for people to learn much about anyone's personal experience of such illnesses. I hope to use my case to shatter common stereotypes that mental illness must involve overt, observable difficulties with ordinary functioning...
...would almost never have any clue whether I am depressed unless I tell you so, as my illness is a biochemical condition having little to do with overt mood and behavior (and I have been compensating for it a great deal for so many years). Although many laypersons and still too many physicians think of depression primarily in terms of "sad" and "blue" feelings caused by neuroses, for me and many others the dominant symptoms have less to do with "feelings" than with physical changes which certainly influence feelings but are prior and more fundamental. I feel sad or blue...
Such calculated shock tactics seem qualitatively different from the methods of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Treasure Island or even the horror stories of Edgar Allan Poe. Classical children's literature is full of overt and implicit terrors because some gifted authors could remember and portray a child's view, those feelings of awe, uncertainty and fear inspired by the world outside. Fright requires no invention; conquering it through language does...
Some people argue that marine mammals -- and most other animals, for that matter -- should never be held captive, even under the most humane conditions. Overt mistreatment, they say, is only the most blatant form of abuse; another is keeping animals in cramped spaces. Says Richard O'Barry, who trained five Flippers for the 1960s TV show and then became a marine-mammal activist: "Whales and dolphins live in a world of sound. In a tank, their sounds only bounce back at them. It's like living in a hall of mirrors. It has to drive them crazy." In fact, dolphins...
...parade would not start up an investigation. But talking about it -- as well as repeated reports of such activity -- would. These hairs are split in a five- page addendum to the proposed policy. While it admonishes commanders not to harass suspected gay soldiers, it also says that overt activities like holding hands and kissing would set off an inquiry. There remains no distinction between behavior on and off base. As a White House official summarized, " 'Don't tell' means don't tell. It would be unwise to say, 'I am gay.' If you do, you enter a danger zone...