Mental Disorder - Law Dictionary Search Results
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mental illness
mental illness 1 : mental disease 2 : a mental condition marked primarily by sufficient disorganization of personality, mind, and emotions to seriously impair the normal psychological and often social functioning of the individual called also mental disorder ...
Mentally ill person
Mentally ill person, means a person who is in need of treatment by reason of any mental disorder other than mental retardation. [Mental Health Act, 1987 (14 of 1987), s. 2(l); see also Act (34 of 1971), s. 2(b)...
Mental illness
Mental illness, means any mental disorder other than mental retardation. (Persons with Disabilities (Equal Opportunities, Protection of Rights and Full Participation) Act, 1995 (1 of 1996), s. 2 (q)]...
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia, means mental disorder, Ram Narain Gupta v. Rameswari Gupta, AIR 1988 SC 2260: (1988) 4 SCC 247: (1988) Supp 2 SCR 913.Schizophrenia, is a type of mental illness and is a form of psychosis, which is more serious than other types of mental illnesses, Rohini Prasad Lal Bihari Ram v. Union of India, (1995) MLJ 268.Schizophrenia, is one of a group of severe emotional disorders, usually of psychotic proportions, characterized by misinterpretation and retreat from reality, delusions, hallucinations, ambivalence, inappropriate affect, and withdrawn, bizarre, or regressive behaviour; popularly and erroneously called split personality, Medical Legal Dictionary, Sloane-Docland, p. 628...
Derangement
The act of deranging or putting out of order or the state of being deranged disarrangement disorder confusion especially mental disorder insanity...
Distracted
Mentally disordered unsettled mad...
Hypochondriasis
A mental disorder in which melancholy and gloomy views torment the affected person particularly concerning his own health a morbid and deluded belief that one is afflicted with disease...
manic depressive psychosis
A mental disorder characterized by alternating episodes of mania and depression...
disorderly conduct
disorderly conduct : conduct that is likely to lead to a disturbance of the public peace or that offends public decency ;also : the petty offense of engaging in disorderly conduct compare breach of the peace NOTE: The term disorderly conduct is used in statutes to identify various acts against the public peace. It has been held to include the use of obscene language in public, the blocking of public ways, and the making of threats. A statute must identify acts that constitute disorderly conduct with sufficient clarity in order to avoid being held unconstitutional because of vagueness. ...
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