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Meanings of mental disorder in English

Portuguese
doença mental
Catalan
pertorbació mental
Wikidata

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

        doença mental
        Russian
        ментальное расстройство
        Portuguese
        perturbação mental
        Catalan
        trastorn mental
        Spanish
        enfermedad mental
        Wikidata

        Behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

          ментальное расстройство
          Synonyms
          Examples for "disturbance"
          Examples for "disturbance"
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          They forced their way inside when they heard a disturbance, police said.
          Reuters
          2
          The people in the tent turned in the direction of the disturbance.
          In His Steps
          3
          His execution was reported as a typical case of public order disturbance.
          News.com.au
          4
          Clearly these are populations that cannot stand a great deal of disturbance.
          A short history of nearly everything
          5
          There is legitimate fear of more disturbance, said government spokesman Panitan Wattanayagorn.
          Reuters
          1
          She's become quite the firebrand whilst acting as her husband's partner in a folie-a-deux.
          The South African
          2
          He says: 'I have had under my care altogether about 40 cases of typical folie circulaire.'
          Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
          3
          Noailles says, "Qu'il a fait une folie, mais qu'il est pr'et 'a la r'eparer."
          The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
          4
          This psychasthenic state, the folie du doute of the French, is accompanied by fear, restlessness and an oppressive feeling of unreality.
          The Foundations of Personality
          5
          The honeymoon was over before That Wedding, but the Gallic spectacle of this Celtic folie de grandeur was too much for the common cumainn.
          The Irish Times
          1
          I think I saw signs of mental disturbance in our luncheon to-day.
          The Girl at Cobhurst
          2
          They saw that she was in a condition of serious mental disturbance.
          The Old Wives' Tale
          3
          But as the two women walked on together, her mental disturbance continued.
          Glory of Youth
          4
          After this there could be no doubt that there was actual mental disturbance.
          The Golden Calf
          5
          You spoke just now of over-work as a cause for this mental disturbance.
          Fenton's Quest
          1
          It was, Chow testified, hotly debated whether DID even existed as a psychological disorder.
          By reason of insanity
          2
          Third, financial repression isn't a psychological disorder, it is the new way of the world.
          Reuters
          3
          This study tested the hypothesis that metacognitions are a general vulnerability factor for psychological disorder.
          Pubmed
          4
          Conclusions: Results on long term psychosocial QoL remain uncertain with some suggestion of psychological disorder persisting.
          Pubmed
          5
          The effort to explain them is understood not just as a political paradox but a psychological disorder.
          The Guardian
          Usage of mental disorder in English
          1
          Evidently on that night the crisis of her mental disorder was reached.
          Further Chronicles of Avonlea
          2
          In the mental disorder that followed, he was spotted and killed easily.
          The Penal Cluster
          3
          Depression was found as the most common mental disorder among South Africans.
          The South African
          4
          A quarter of the victims were identified as having a mental disorder.
          Ebony
          5
          Mortality associated with mental disorder increased, most clearly during the mid 1980s.
          Pubmed
          6
          Just under three-quarters will be suffering from some kind of mental disorder.
          The Guardian
          7
          Women who engage in this behaviour are suffering from a mental disorder.
          News.com.au
          8
          They are both equally unnatural and the result of mental disorder.
          As a Man Thinketh
          9
          Increasing disgust and horror, however, flung her into another mental disorder.
          Odd John
          10
          Well, it's a sort of mental disorder most of us have.
          The Ne'er-Do-Well
          11
          Psychiatrists will decide whether he has an anxiety or any other mental disorder.
          The Guardian
          12
          She showed signs, her daughter believes, of an undiagnosed mental disorder.
          The Guardian
          13
          His post diagnosed Syed as a liar with a mental disorder.
          The Guardian
          14
          Though based on fancy, the delights of some forms of mental disorder are real.
          A Mind That Found Itself: An Autobiography
          15
          We thought this morning that she was on the verge of serious mental disorder.
          An Ambitious Man
          16
          The prisoner may be insane, or feeble-minded, or have some other peculiar mental disorder.
          The Science of Human Nature: A Psychology for Beginners