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

All the evil you feel, the mental sickness, the bodily sickness, is imaginary.

From The Hearts of Men by Fielding, H. (Harold)

But I will not dwell on any mental sickness of mine.

From Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Compiled From Her Letters and Journals by Her Son Charles Edward Stowe by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

This may be a mental sickness, but it is too human or too mortal a sickness to be called solely a superstition.

From Eugenics and Other Evils by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)