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Meanings of mental illness in English

Portuguese
psicopata
Catalan
psicopatia
Spanish
psicopatía

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

psicopata
Usage of mental illness in English
1
Today, it is the most common form of officially classified mental illness.
The Guardian
2
In response to Prevention: the new holy grail of treating mental illness.
The Guardian
3
This is, of course, one way the stigmatisation of mental illness works.
The Irish Times
4
Widespread public ignorance of mental illness is encouraging discrimination against mentally-ill people.
The Irish Times
5
Police are looking into whether Aron has a history of mental illness.
The Guardian
6
China is to remove homosexuality from the official list of mental illness.
The Irish Times
7
Children of spankers more frequently battle mental illness, imprisonment, and substance abuse.
Ebony
8
For example, roughly a third of US prisoners have a mental illness.
BBC
9
Conclusions: Most older people do not view depression as a mental illness.
Pubmed
10
She said: Like millions of Americans, I am living with mental illness.
BBC
11
Patients with serious mental illness have high smoking prevalence and early mortality.
Pubmed
12
Objective: To compare bariatric surgery outcomes according to preoperative mental illness category.
Pubmed
13
It has emerged Mr Anderson had a long history of mental illness.
BBC
14
She encourages others who are dealing with mental illness to seek treatment.
Ebony
15
In NO place does it state that AS is a mental illness.
The Irish Times
16
Endogenous or exogenous, nature or nurture-it'sthe great mystery of mental illness.
Girl, Interrupted
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