mental disease

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mental disease - any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric interventionmental illness, psychopathymental condition, mental state, psychological condition, psychological state - (psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic; "a manic state"megalomania - a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeurinsanity - relatively permanent disorder of the mindpsychosis - any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted