| Main Entry: | mental illness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emotional disorder |
Synonyms: |
craziness, delusions, depression, derangement, disturbed mind, emotional disorder, emotional instability, insanity, loss of mind, lunacy, madness, maladjustment, mania, mental disease, mental disorder, mental sickness, nervous breakdown, nervous disorder, neurosis, neurotic disorder, paranoia, personality disorder, phobia, psychopathy, psychosis, schizophrenia, sick mind, troubled mind, unbalanced mind, unsoundness of mind |
| Main Entry: | neurosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental disturbance, disorder |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abnormality, affliction, breakdown, compulsion, crack-up, derangement, deviation, hysteria, inhibition, insanity, instability, madness, maladjustment, mental illness, neurasthenia, obsession, personality disorder, phobia, psychological disorder, psychopathy |
| Notes: | neurosis is a disorder of the central nervous system and it has come to be used as a shortened form of psychoneurosis, a mildly disturbing emotional or physical condition brought on by a mental state, while psychosis is a severe emotional disturbance |
Antonyms: |
adjustment, balance, sanity |
| Main Entry: | inferiority complex |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | low self-esteem |
Synonyms: |
personality disorder |
| Main Entry: | split personality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disorder with two or more independent personalities |
Synonyms: |
alternating personality, bipolar disorder, dissociative identity, dual personality, multiple personality, personality disorder |