All maladjustment synonyms

noun maladjustment

• disorder — lack of order or regular arrangement; confusion: Your room is in utter disorder.
• insanity — the condition of being insane; a derangement of the mind. Synonyms: dementia, lunacy, madness, craziness, mania, aberration.
• mental disorder — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
• personality disorder — any of a group of mental disorders characterized by deeply ingrained maladaptive patterns of behavior and personality style, which are usually recognizable as early as adolescence and are often lifelong in duration.
• schizophrenia — Psychiatry.. Also called dementia praecox. a severe mental disorder characterized by some, but not necessarily all, of the following features: emotional blunting, intellectual deterioration, social isolation, disorganized speech and behavior, delusions, and hallucinations.
• inhibition — the act of inhibiting.
• breakdown — The breakdown of something such as a relationship, plan, or discussion is its failure or ending.
• abnormality — An abnormality in something, especially in a person's body or behaviour, is an unusual part or feature of it that may be worrying or dangerous.
• aberration — An aberration is an incident or way of behaving that is not typical.
• deviation — Deviation means doing something that is different from what people consider to be normal or acceptable.
• affliction — An affliction is something which causes physical or mental suffering.
• instability — the quality or state of being unstable; lack of stability or firmness.
• compulsion — A compulsion is a strong desire to do something, which you find difficult to control.
• obsession — the domination of one's thoughts or feelings by a persistent idea, image, desire, etc.
• hysteria — an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc.
• neurasthenia — Psychiatry. (not in technical use) nervous debility and exhaustion occurring in the absence of objective causes or lesions; nervous exhaustion.
• depression — A depression is a time when there is very little economic activity, which causes a lot of unemployment and poverty.
• derangement — Derangement is the state of being mentally ill and unable to think or act in a controlled way.
• lunacy — insanity; mental disorder.
• madness — the state of being mad; insanity.
• mania — an ancient Roman goddess of the dead.
• nervous breakdown — (not in technical use) any disabling mental disorder requiring treatment.
• neurosis — Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
• phobia — a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.
• craziness — mentally deranged; demented; insane.
• psychopathy — a mental disorder in which an individual manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
• mental disease — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
• paranoia — Psychiatry. a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projection of personal conflicts, which are ascribed to the supposed hostility of others, sometimes progressing to disturbances of consciousness and aggressive acts believed to be performed in self-defense or as a mission.
• psychosis — a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality.
• mental illness — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
• disturbance — the act of disturbing.
• confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
• alienation — a turning away; estrangement
• estrangement — The fact of no longer being on friendly terms or part of a social group.
• delusions — Plural form of delusion.