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mental disorder

Any of various disorders, such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or autism spectrum disorder, characterized by a distressing or disabling impairment of an individual's cognitive, emotional, or social functioning.

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mental disorder

(Law) law (in England, according to the Mental Health Act 1983) mental illness, arrested or incomplete development of mind, psychopathic disorder, or any other disorder or disability of the mind

mentally disordered adj

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Noun

mental disorder - (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness

folie, mental disturbance, psychological disorder, disturbance

psychiatry, psychological medicine, psychopathology - the branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders

disorder, upset - a physical condition in which there is a disturbance of normal functioning; "the doctor prescribed some medicine for the disorder"; "everyone gets stomach upsets from time to time"

Asperger's syndrome - a psychiatric disorder usually noted during early school years; characterized by impaired social relations and by repetitive patterns of behavior

anxiety disorder - a cover term for a variety of mental disorders in which severe anxiety is a salient symptom

psychosomatic disorder - a mental disorder that causes somatic symptoms

aberration - a disorder in one's mental state

conversion disorder, conversion hysteria, conversion reaction - a mental disorder characterized by the conversion of mental conflict into somatic forms (into paralysis or anesthesia having no apparent cause)

delirium - a usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often accompanied by hallucinations

delusional disorder - any mental disorder in which delusions play a significant role

encopresis - involuntary defecation not attributable to physical defects or illness

folie a deux - the simultaneous occurrence of symptoms of a mental disorder (as delusions) in two persons who are closely related (as siblings or man and wife)

personality disorder - inflexible and maladaptive patterns of behavior

affective disorder, emotional disorder, emotional disturbance, major affective disorder - any mental disorder not caused by detectable organic abnormalities of the brain and in which a major disturbance of emotions is predominant

schizothymia - resembling schizophrenia but remaining within the bounds of normality

neurosis, neuroticism, psychoneurosis - a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction

dissociative disorder - dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down

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Can it be that the letters are the outcome of a mental disorder? .

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The writer spoke of acute bodily illness--of a mental disorder which oppressed him--and of an earnest desire to see me, as his best, and indeed his only personal friend, with a view of attempting, by the cheerfulness of my society, some alleviation of his malady.

And now, some days of bitter grief having elapsed, an observable change came over the features of the mental disorder of my friend.

It was, however, the only book immediately at hand; and I indulged a vague hope that the excitement which now agitated the hypochondriac, might find relief (for the history of mental disorder is full of similar anomalies) even in the extremeness of the folly which I should read.

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Thus, at last, our hapless travellers, deprived of water in this torrid heat, began to feel symptoms of mental disorder. Their eyes swelled in their sockets, and their gaze became confused.

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This was not reassuring to Mr Verloc, in whose view the newly created situation required from the two people most concerned in it calmness, decision, and other qualities incompatible with the mental disorder of passionate sorrow.

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The study published in the journal 'Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica' indicated that those who have been hospitalised due to a mental disorder before turning 25 have considerably poorer prospects on the labour market compared to the rest of the population.

Serious mental disorder in youth may have lasting impact on employment prospects: Study

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A larger and larger share of the world's population now lives in cities and WHO estimates that more than 450 millions of the global human population suffer from a mental disorder. A number that is expected to increase.

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The mental disorder is considered as the second largest prevalence in the society after cardiovascular diseases.