NOUN
- any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention
How To Use mental illness In A Sentence
- It was, in fact, the accidental discovery of several mind-altering drugs in the middle of the 20th century that drew me into research on brain functions and mental illness.
- Her periods of withdrawal and mental illness increased. Hemingway in Paris - Parisian walks for the literary traveller
- Debut novelists will make up nearly half of the Orange prize for fiction longlist, which this year tackles strikingly difficult subjects: incest, sadistic cruelty, polygamy, child bereavement, hermaphroditism and mental illness. Orange prize longlist tackles difficult subjects – and alligators
- They will also support pregnant women and new mothers with existing mental illness. The Sun
- If this was a documentary about fame, it was also one about mental illness. Times, Sunday Times
- An organization that accepts the antipsychiatry mantra that we have medicalized everything, and their devotion to confronting abuse, but rejects their position that mental illness does not exist. DJ Jaffe: Psychiatry vs. Antipsychiatry: Call to action
- The legislation would require corporate health plans to treat mental illnesses the same as physical ailments.
- Mental illness: When people believe they change into an animal form theriomorphosis, or possess supernatural non-human animal traits, the term clinical lycanthropy is often used. Therianthropy
- Poverty is a major contributor to mental illness, stress, suicide, family disintegration and substance abuse.
- How can one pick out the symptoms of mental illness in patients who seem otherwise normal?