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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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... wife's death, and as some sort of break in his unutterable loneliness. But nature had helped him more than he had dreamed; and to the pure air, the physical fatigue, and consequent sound sleep was due much of the cure of his mental illness that all ...

— Reels and Spindles - A Story of Mill Life • Evelyn Raymond

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