NOUN
- (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness
How To Use mental disorder In A Sentence
- Here is the verbatim definition of schizophrenia from the Random House online dictionary - the medical definition: "a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations. Conservative: Dems looking 'schizophrenic' on reform
- He's suffering from severe mental disorder.
- Everybody, but especially people with a mental disorder, needs expert legal advice when faced with statutory confinement.
- More often than not the inability to cope manifests itself in mental disorders, says experts.
- In the case of my own parents, Claud and Patricia Cockburn, there were no traces of any mental disorder; both were highly self-confident and tough-minded. Henry’s Demons
- Everybody, but especially people with a mental disorder, needs expert legal advice when faced with statutory confinement.
- He's suffering from severe mental disorder.
- The plaintiff was a man with a history of mental disorder and seriously violent behaviour.
- Another form of mental disorder, pellagra, was associated clinically with diarrhoea and dermatitis.
- Also patron of epileptics and runaways; she is invoked against diabolic possession and mental disorders.
