mental health

[Victor Steinbok]

  You're absolutely right. I grabbed the wrong one. I was trying to find
parallel constructs and just picked the wrong site from the search list.
And your explanation is the same as mine would have been had I given
one. I tried to stick to observations and did not do a great job of that.

Here are a couple of better links for "mental healthy people/persons":

http://bit.ly/cDuaqZ
> Mental healthy people experience a range of emotions and allow
> themselves to express these feelings.

http://bit.ly/bn5nmD
> An open three group comparison is made of one-hundred patients with
> severe COPD (stage III and IV), thirty-three patients with moderate
> COPD (stage II), thirty-three patients with hip prosthesis and
> thirty-three mental healthy persons in match-able age.

Wouldn't want you to think that these are all spurious ;-)

     VS-)

On 9/5/2010 9:49 AM, Laurence Horn wrote:
> At 12:37 AM -0400 9/5/10, Victor Steinbok wrote:
>>   ...
>> http://bit.ly/cDuaqZ
>>> Mentally healthy persons are in the process of actualizing their
>>> potential.
>> ...
> And the second one above looks like a spurious one, but you've
> corrected it from "Mental healthy persons...")  The same site also
> does have "some are mentally healthier than others" .  I suppose
> those who are responsible for all those other hits are treating
> "mental health" as a unit, whence [mental health]-y.  ...

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