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

Jealousy with married partners who do not love each other is grounded in several causes, proceeding in some instances from various mental sickness, 373, 375.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

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.

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