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mental disorder

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noun

  1. law (in England, according to the Mental Health Act 1983) mental illness, arrested or incomplete development of mind, psychopathic disorder, or any other disorder or disability of the mind

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  • mentally disordered adjective

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People suffering from a mental disorder which might affect the making of the request would not be allowed to proceed.

From BBC • Mar. 17, 2026

This assessment accounted for age, sex, ethnicity, tobacco use, type of mental disorder, and current treatments.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

The story centers on Alice, an ordinary Middle American girl who begins to suffer from a mental disorder while enrolled at the University of Oklahoma.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025

More than 34,000 inmates — more than a third of the California prison population — are considered to have some sort of serious mental disorder.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 19, 2025

It’s almost a mental disorder, but there’s a sort of scale.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

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