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mad person

noun as in person who is considered mentally ill

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The Chinese word for mental illness, 'jingshen bing' sounds similar to a derogatory term for a mad person, 'shenjing bing', and people who have mental health issues would always be seen as someone out of their minds.

From BBC

My instinct as a mad person was to make him stupid, but it’s not the most interesting thing to do, and he doesn’t have 40 percent of the population in his thrall because he’s stupid.

“He thinks I’m being over the top. He’s angry with me for acting like a ‘mad person’, and calls me paranoid.

The symptoms are as follows: about an hour into watching almost any given movie, I find myself contorted with irritation, and begin muttering like a mad person: “But what about her? What does she have to say?”

“I’m not that mad person who will eternally adulate him if he screws up or if it all goes wrong with his sons and they really are corrupt,” Cláudia said, in reference to suspicions of corruption swirling around Bolsonaro’s eldest son, the senator Flávio Bolsonaro.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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