WordNet
n. any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention [syn: mental illness, psychopathy] [ant: mental health]
Usage examples of "mental disease".
XLII, Research Publications, Association for Research in Nervous and Mental Disease, 1964, pp.
The mental disease that we call paranoia is only a slightly more acute form of this normal but dysfunctional state of consciousness.
The Stoics shared Plato's suspicions to the full, regarding the passions as perturbations of the mind, almost as a kind of mental disease.
Such examples also greatly relieve the burden of guilt commonly experienced by sufferers from a mental disease, a burden rarely felt in victims of, say measles.
Faced with a problem no one could help me with, and that I was as helpless to solve as a human faced with a mental disease would be, I took the only course open to me.
She contracted a serious mental disease known as delirium altaphasis.
I didn't doubt that it could provide an elegant mathematical underpinning to any TOE-but if the first distinct evidence for the theory itself consisted of the rantings of four people suffering from a new and exotic mental disease, that was a slender basis on which to throw out everything I believed about the universe.
Morgan, I believe you will discover that my definition of mental disease is rather more conservative than most.