All mental disease synonyms

noun mental disease

• 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.
• 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.
• maladjustment — bad or unsatisfactory adjustment.
• 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.