For every 100 girls with an emotional disturbance diagnosed, we have 324 boys.

Their only disturbance came from the taunts and threats of the giant Benandonner, or the red man, who lived across the sea in Scotland.

Now we know that women are more likely to experience the symptoms of fatigue, sleep disturbance, pain and anxiety compared with men.

And at times, when we were like this, so much "Shhh," so much "Shhh" going on in the house that I imagined us to be like the German crew of a U-boat creeping along the edge of the ocean whilst up above, on the surface, HMS Bageye patrolled ready to drop death charges at the first sound of any disturbance.

And finally, the DSM required that the emotional disturbance should be more than simply an exacerbation of an already existing disorder.

I told him I did not wonder that his father was as he had described him, for that his head was a little touched before I went away; and principally his disturbance was because I could not be persuaded to conceal our relation and to live with him as my husband, after I knew that he was my brother; that as he knew better than I what his father's present condition was, I should readily join with him in such measure as he would direct; that I was indifferent as to seeing his father, since I had seen him first, and he could not have told me better news than to tell me that what his grandmother had left me was entrusted in his hands, who, I doubted not, now he knew who I was, would, as he said, do me justice.

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