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

The latter, he told himself, might be merely a symptom of mental sickness, a condition natural to the influences under which she had been formed.

From Wild Oranges by Hergesheimer, Joseph

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.

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