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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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... hoping that Lady Coverly might live out her days in ignorance of the grim secret of the Bell House. This dying wish of his was gratified. The loss of her son, so closely followed by that of her husband, prostrated Lady Coverly in a mental illness from which she never recovered, although I exercised all my skill in an endeavor to restore her reason. She spent the remainder of her days in a semi-comatose state which so closely resembled death that to this present ...

— The Green Eyes of Bast • Sax Rohmer

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