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
The child, who needed love more than punishment, became a mental case, perhaps incurable.
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
Especially so because they think they are physically ill, they did not come to me to be defined as a "mental" case and tend to reject such approaches.
From How and When to Be Your Own Doctor by Solomon, Steve
