Synonyms for mental illness
men·tal ill·ness

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1. mental illness, mental disease, psychopathynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   psychopathy, mental disease

   Antonyms:
   mental health

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1. Arlene Holmes:

   When mental illness is severe and untreated is when things go bad, and that was the case with my son. Severe case of schizophrenia, untreated by anti-psychotic medication and then this happened.

2. Iris Eytan:

   Look at his eyes, they're completely dilated, he was under the influence of something, and I believe it was mental illness.

3. Pat McGinnis:

   If they have any sign of mental illness, dementia or Alzheimer's, they could say, 'I was raped by so and so' but nobody believes them.

4. Wahid Mayar:

   The suffering of mental illness in Afghanistan is a silent war. If peace comes then we will have to accept the new normal, but currently we are in a phase of tremendous uncertainty, the prospect of peace brings hope and anxiety. We wonder can peace ever come to embrace us, to calm our minds.

5. Judith Weissman:

   What's been most surprising isn't necessarily that the overall numbers have increased but that the cohort that is most impacted has changed, there's a newfound high-risk group: middle-aged adults; that's adults from about the age of 45 to 59 in the US, who previously had not been thought to be at high risk for mental illness or suicide, and now we're finding that they are.