Noun
mental illness
- (uncountable, psychiatry) The property of being mentally ill; mental disorders taken as a whole.
- 2006, R. Keith Sawyer, Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation,[http://books.google.com/books?id=bb4AGIZPkJsC ] Oxford University Press US, ISBN 9780195161649, page 87:
- Such studies show that geniuses are not any more likely to suffer from mental illness than the rest of us.
- 2006, R. Keith Sawyer, Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation,[http://books.google.com/books?id=bb4AGIZPkJsC ] Oxford University Press US, ISBN 9780195161649, page 87:
- (countable, psychiatry) A mental disorder.
- 2002, Vikram Patel, Where There is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual,[http://books.google.com/books?id=PgjFAT9nUukC ] RCPsych Publications ISBN 978-1-901242-75-1, page 70:
- Epilepsy is not a mental illness. It is caused by electrical changes in the brain.
- 2002, Vikram Patel, Where There is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual,[http://books.google.com/books?id=PgjFAT9nUukC ] RCPsych Publications ISBN 978-1-901242-75-1, page 70:
- French: maladie mentale
- German: Geisteskrankheit
- Russian: душе́вная боле́знь
- Spanish: enfermedad mental
- French: maladie mentale
- Italian: disturbo mentale
- Portuguese: doença mental, transtorno mental, distúrbio mental
- Russian: душе́вная боле́знь
- Spanish: enfermedad mental
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