2.5.8 Mental illness
Use this domain for words related to being mentally ill or disabled.
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(1) What words describe someone who is mentally ill?
Example words: mentally ill, insane, mad, crazy, disturbed, mentally disabled, crackbrained, crazed, demonized, demon possessed, feeble minded, melancholic, neurotic, obsessive, paranoid, preoccupied, psychopathic, psychotic, retarded, catatonic
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(2) What words describe an old person who has become mentally ill?
Example words: senile, confused, his mind is wandering, lose your marbles
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(3) What words refer to mental illness?
Example words: mental illness, madness, insanity, dementia, demon possession, fixation, hypochondria, lunacy, mania, melancholia, neurosis, obsession, paranoia, psychosis, schizophrenia, senility
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(4) What words refer to becoming mentally ill?
Example words: have a nervous breakdown, crack up, go mad, go insane, go crazy, go senile, develop a psychosis
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(5) What words refer to something that causes mental illness?
Example words: brain injury, mental trauma, shock
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(6) What words refer to partial or total mental disability?
Example words: mild retardation, severe retardation, vegetable
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(7) What words refer to a mentally ill person?
Example words: madman, crazy man, hypochondriac, idiot, lunatic, maniac, possessed man, psychopath, schizophrenic, retard
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(8) What words refer to someone who cares for mentally ill people?
Example words: psychologist, psychiatrist, exorcist
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(9) What words refer to a hospital for mentally ill people?
Example words: insane asylum
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(10) What words refer to someone who is normal and not mentally ill?
Example words: sane, sanity, of sound mind