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Mental illness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being mentally ill; mental disorders taken as a whole. uncountable

    "Such studies show that geniuses are not any more likely to suffer from mental illness than the rest of us."

  2. 2
    any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention wordnet
  3. 3
    A mental disorder. countable

    "Epilepsy is not a mental illness. It is caused by electrical changes in the brain."

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