disorder
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There are also psychiatric factors including anxiety, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
“You don’t want this for your kid,” said Marni Levine, a college counselor from Marlboro, N.J., whose now-adult daughter was diagnosed with an auditory processing disorder in high school.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
The change reflects a broader scientific understanding of the condition as a multisystem disorder that affects metabolic, hormonal, reproductive and mental health — not simply a condition defined by ovarian cysts.
From Salon • May 16, 2026
In generalized anxiety disorder, for example, people may worry excessively about ordinary events and struggle to control nervousness or fear.
From Science Daily • May 16, 2026
At first alienists described this condition as “moral insanity” and those who exhibited the disorder as “moral imbeciles.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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