mental case
Example Sentences
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The sorry business with Jimmy and Chuck: the latter has no case because Jimmy could always say that he was humoring Chuck, who was certifiably a mental case at the time.
From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2016
There Lyn Smith was put under observation as a mental case.
From Time Magazine Archive
If considered a mental case he may enter a madman's cell, on Ile St. Joseph.
From Time Magazine Archive
Psychiatrists are leery of group hypnosis: they say that a borderline mental case, thus hypnotized, may slip over the line into insanity.
From Time Magazine Archive
Staring at a long list of computer commands written as binary numbers—for example, 10011001100001— could make you into a babbling mental case in a matter of minutes.
From Hackers, Heroes of the Computer Revolution Chapters 1 and 2 by Levy, Steven
