WordNet
n. (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness [syn: mental disorder, disturbance, psychological disorder, folie]
Usage examples of "mental disturbance".
He has been advised to take a long vacation and to shun future cases dealing with mental disturbance.
Nevertheless, he might suffer this mental disturbance, and yet maintain the fixed persuasion that life and bodily safety, which the violence of the tempest threatened to destroy, are not those good things which make their possessors good, as the possession of righteousness does.
His Oriental stoicism betrayed no especial interest in his master's mental disturbance.
When it is the product of strong emotion or mental disturbance, the force is even more powerful.
There was something about the brooding aura of the place that wiped all mental disturbance clean away.
Her manner showed severe mental disturbance, indifference, depression, a distressing deterioration.
There had been no warning signs of mental disturbance whatsoever ….
It has been discovered recently that what we call mental illness or mental disturbance -- such syndromes as the schizophrenias and the cyclothemic phenomena of manic-depression -- may have to do with faulty brain metabolism, the failure of certain brain catalysts such as serotonin and noradrenaline to act properly.
It was evident that he was undergoing some process of mental disturbance, and knowing how his past moods had interpreted things seemingly foreign to himself, I thought I would enter into his mind as well as I could and go with him.
Apparently, extended wakefulness affects the coordination of various parts of the nervous system, and there is the onset of hallucinations and other symptoms of mental disturbance.
If he was absolutely honest with himself, however, he would have to admit he was a little broad in his definitions of mental disturbance.