mental sickness
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We don't have blood tests or other objective criteria to distinguish mental sickness from health.
From Reuters • May 17, 2013
He is, to all appearances, an easygoing six-footer with no troubles but how to get up in the morning, and he has never had a day of mental sickness in his 38 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He is an acute sufferer from that mental sickness diagnosed by nearly all writers of Russia.
From Essays on Russian Novelists by Phelps, William Lyon
At all events, Alex found the story-books of no solace to her mental sickness, and turned away from their perusal with a sinking heart.
From Consequences by Delafield, E. M.
This may be a mental sickness, but it is too human or too mortal a sickness to be called solely a superstition.
From Eugenics and Other Evils by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)