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)

In many cases, the genes—those vital units within the cell which determine growth and structure and all physical and mental characteristics—the genes were altered, so that children grew abnormally, with deformities or mental sickness.

From The Image and the Likeness by Campbell, John Scott

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