'mental illness' definitions:
Definition of 'mental illness'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention [syn: mental illness, mental disease, psychopathy] [ant: mental health]
Synonyms of 'mental illness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberration,
- abnormality,
- alienation,
- brain damage,
- brain disease,
- brainsickness,
- clouded mind,
- crack-up,
- craziness,
- daftness,
- dementedness,
- dementia,
- derangement,
- disorientation,
- distraction,
- emotional disorder,
- emotional instability,
- folie,
- functional nervous disorder,
- furor,
- insaneness,
- insanity,
- irrationality,
- loss of mind,
- loss of reason,
- lunacy,
- madness,
- maladjustment,
- mania,
- manic-depressive psychosis,
- melancholia,
- mental deficiency,
- mental derangement,
- mental disease,
- mental disorder,
- mental disturbance,
- mental instability,
- mental sickness,
- mind overthrown,
- mindsickness,
- nervous breakdown,
- nervous disorder,
- neurosis,
- oddness,
- paranoia,
- personality disorder,
- pixilation,
- possession,
- problems in living,
- psychosis,
- queerness,
- rabidness,
- reaction,
- reasonlessness,
- schizophrenia,
- senselessness,
- shattered mind,
- sick mind,
- sickness,
- social maladjustment,
- strangeness,
- unbalance,
- unbalanced mind,
- unsaneness,
- unsound mind,
- unsoundness,
- unsoundness of mind,
- witlessness