Synonyms for mental illness
men·tal ill·ness

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1. mental illness, mental disease, psychopathynoun

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

   Synonyms:
   psychopathy, mental disease

   Antonyms:
   mental health

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1. Kathryn Kase:

   Mr. Panetti is a sick man who has suffered from schizophrenia, an incurable mental illness, for over thirty years, including prior to and during the crime, and during his trial at which he represented himself in a floridly psychotic state.

2. Boston University:

   People have horrible prejudice against mental illness.

3. Joy Behar:

   The View’s one thing to talk to Jesus. The View’s another thing when Jesus talks to you, the View’s called mental illness.

4. Jacqueline Jones:

   I can relate to it all, so many people live these situations. We know how many women go to jail to protect their man or take a bullet for their man. Or maybe you don't have a Cookie in your family, but you may have a gay person or someone who suffers from mental illness.

5. Amy Sutherland:

   Mental illness does not give anybody the right to put their hands on my child.