mental illness

Any of various disorders characterized by impairment of an individual's thoughts, emotions, or social functioning, including schizophrenia and mood disorders such as bipolar disorder.

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mental illness

(Pathology) any of various disorders in which a person's thoughts, emotions, or behaviour are so abnormal as to cause suffering to himself, herself, or other people

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men′tal ill′ness

any of various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis. Also called men′tal disor′der, men′tal disease`.

[1960–65]

men·tal illness

(mĕn′tl)

Any of various disorders or diseases characterized by abnormal patterns of thought and behavior.

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Noun

mental illness - any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

mental disease, psychopathy

mental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state - (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic; "a manic state"

megalomania - a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur

insanity - relatively permanent disorder of the mind

psychosis - any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted

mental health - the psychological state of someone who is functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment

mental illness

noun

Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely:

brainsickness, craziness, dementia, derangement, disturbance, insaneness, insanity, lunacy, madness, psychopathy, unbalance.

Psychiatry: mania.

Psychology: aberration, alienation.

Translations

enfermedad mental

mental illness

n → malattia mentale

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