mental illness

DEFINITIONS OF: mental illness

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

Types:: show 11 types...; hide 11 types...; 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; insaneness, lunacy, madness
obsolete terms for legal insanity; dementedness, dementia
mental deterioration of organic or functional origin; irrationality, unreason
the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding; derangement, mental unsoundness, unbalance
a state of mental disturbance and disorientation; craziness, daftness, flakiness
informal terms for insanity; DTs, delirium tremens
acute delirium caused by alcohol poisoning; paranoia
a psychological disorder characterized by delusions of persecution or grandeur; dementia praecox, schizophrenia, schizophrenic disorder, schizophrenic psychosis
any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact

Type of:: 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

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