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Mental illness

noun

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

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"Mental illness" Quotes from Famous Books

... and only that can be appropriated which is done in freedom of the will and in accord with the reason of the understanding, no one is reformed in states of no freedom or rationality. There are many such states, but they may be summarized as states of fear, misfortune, mental illness, physical disease, ignorance, and intellectual blindness. Something will be said ...

— Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence • Emanuel Swedenborg

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