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mental disorder
noun
- 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
Derived Forms
- mentally disordered, adjective
Example Sentences
A psychological assessment showed no evidence of Saadi having a diagnosed mental disorder and he had only features of autistic spectrum disorder.
More than 34,000 inmates — more than a third of the California prison population — are considered to have some sort of serious mental disorder.
“Fifty percent of patients with mental disorders, particularly severe mental disorders, are suicidal,†van Os said.
In 2023, at the Court of Appeal the brothers' lawyers presented new expert opinion which said Witness Z had a lifelong mental disorder, which they said made his evidence unreliable.
Being sectioned is when someone with a mental disorder is detained in hospital, under the Mental Health Act 1983, for treatment and assessment.
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