mental illness

English

mental illness (countable and uncountable, plural mental illnesses)

(uncountable, psychiatry) The property of being mentally ill; mental disorders taken as a whole.
- 2006, R. Keith Sawyer, Explaining Creativity: The Science of Human Innovation, Oxford University Press US, →ISBN, page 87:
  Such studies show that geniuses are not any more likely to suffer from mental illness than the rest of us.
(countable, psychiatry) A mental disorder.
- 2002, Vikram Patel, Where There is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual, RCPsych Publications →ISBN, page 70:
  Epilepsy is not a mental illness. It is caused by electrical changes in the brain.

property (uncountable)

Icelandic: geðveiki (is) f
Japanese: 精神疾患 (せいしんしっかん, seishin shikkan), 精神病 (せいしんびょう, seishinbyō)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sinnssykdom (no) m
Portuguese: please add this translation if you can
Russian: душе́вная боле́знь f (dušévnaja boléznʹ), психи́ческое заболева́ние n (psixíčeskoje zabolevánije), помеша́тельство (ru) n (pomešátelʹstvo), психи́ческое расстро́йство (ru) n (psixíčeskoje rasstrójstvo)
Spanish: enfermedad mental (es) f
Tagalog: isipning karamdaman

mental disorder (countable)

Icelandic: geðsjúkdómur m
Italian: disturbo mentale m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: sinnssykdom (no) m
Portuguese: doença mental f, transtorno mental m, distúrbio mental m
Russian: душе́вная боле́знь f (dušévnaja boléznʹ), психи́ческое заболева́ние n (psixíčeskoje zabolevánije)
Spanish: locura (es) f
Tagalog: isipning karamdaman

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