sociopathic
/sˌoʊsɪəpˈæθɪk/
adjective
relating to or exhibiting extreme antisocial attitudes and behaviors that are perceived as signs of a personality disorder
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1This was a person with sociopathic tendencies.
2Kevin Garnett is borderline sociopathic about winning.
3This game is as much about sociopathic charisma as anything.
4Is it sociopathic?
5- She's just playing a sociopathic character.
psychosomatic
/saɪˌkoʊsəˈmætɪk/
adjective
(of a physical illness) caused or aggravated by mental factors, such as stress and anxiety
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1It's all psychosomatic.
2If they can't find a specific trigger or reason for the pain were told that it's not happening and that it's psychosomatic that we're doing in our head.
3The apparent symptoms have been explained as everything from hormonal changes to a psychosomatic condition.
4It could be psychosomatic, but I feel like-- and also to be fair, I will stand by this, you can get really, really good bottles of wine for $11.
5In turn, this leads to psychosomatic pain.
psychopathic
/ˌsaɪkəˈpæθɪk/
adjective
suffering from an undiagnosed mental disorder
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1Certainly many people with criminal records don't fit that psychopathic profile.
2Because it became a psychopathic family of clowns.
3And again, these are psychopathic traits as well.
4They Have Many Sides: psychopathic behavior is always changing.
5Those with psychopathic brains displayed a much higher level of activity in their nucleus accumbens.
non compos mentis
/nˈɑːn kəmpˈoʊz mˈɛntiz/
adjective
not sane or unable to think clearly

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manic-depressive
/mˈænɪkdɪpɹˈɛsɪv/
adjective
relating to or suffering from bipolar disorder
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1His moods followed a manic-depressive pattern, fluctuating between euphoria that Germany was about to crush the Allies and despair that all was lost.
2This was defined in his book, Manic-depressive Insanity and Paranoia, published in 1921, and this is where we get the term manic depression, which we also don't use as an official term anymore.
3In 1980, the Third Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders was published, and manic-depressive insanity was split into bipolar disorder and unipolar depression.
4Keep in mind that bipolar spectrum or the original manic-depressive insanity did include having recurring depressions without a manic episode.
5But to be fair, chemical engineers as a group haven't really earned a reputation over the centuries for being alcoholic manic-depressives.
maladjusted
/ˌmæɫəˈdʒəstɪd/
adjective
(of a person) characterized by being emotionally unstable and incapable of coping with the demands of a normal social environment
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1Eastern India, sometime in the fifth century BC A wealthy young Indian prince, Siddhartha Gautama, later known as The Buddha, The Enlightened One, comes to a key realization about human beings: all of us are deeply maladjusted, unhappy creatures.
2You talk about maladjusted.
3Some physical consequences to nail biting can include sore red fingernails, bleeding, a risk of infection, contamination (finger to mouth), teeth weakening, maladjusted teeth, and more.
disordered
/dɪˈsɔɹdɝd/
adjective
affected by an abnormal physical or mental condition
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1It creates a more disordered state.
2The world always becomes more and more disordered.
3"What is the difference between disordered eating "and an eating disorder?
4His disordered dress showed that he had been hastily aroused from sleep.
5I always attributed my failure at these points to the disordered state of his health.
unbalanced
/ənˈbæɫənst/
adjective
affected with madness or insanity
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1Because the relationship is real unbalanced.
2So, off the bat, our encounter will be unbalanced.
3It was woefully unbalanced.
4Things get very unbalanced sometimes.
5With the overuse of antibiotics, dental products, and several other cosmetics, your gut becomes unbalanced with good and bad bacteria.
shell-shocked
/ʃˈɛlʃˈɑːkt/
noun
affected by a traumatic event, often resulting in symptoms such as anxiety, depression, and distress
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1Literally, there's this great television footage of him where he just looks shell-shocked.
2The FIGHTING where SHELL-SHOCKED residents struggled to escape.
3The drill won't leave Sam shell-shocked.
4You see people who are really shell-shocked.
5It was, I think, in World War II, it’s called shell-shocked.
schizophrenic
/ˌʃɪzəˈfɹɛnɪk/
adjective
suffering from or relating to schizophrenia
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1He's schizophrenic.
2Are they schizophrenic?
3Schizophrenics hear voices.
4So some schizophrenics might just not talk.
5Schizophrenics seem to really have more stressful family environments than non-schizophrenics.
psychotic
/ˌsaɪˈkɑtɪk/
adjective
(of a mental condition) affecting brain processes so severely that makes one unable to tell the difference between reality and fantasy
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1That's psychotic.
2The psychotic symptoms are hallucinations, delusions, or severe thought or behavioral disorganization.
3I had a psychotic break.
4That was psychotic.
5Some of my friends are psychotic.
paranoid
/ˈpɛɹəˌnɔɪd/
adjective
unreasonably scared of other people or thinking that they are trying to cause harm
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1You're paranoid.
2You guys are paranoid.
3- Gabriel Diaz is paranoid.
4The first one is paranoid schizophrenia.
5Which signs are more paranoid than the others?
neurotic
/nʊˈɹɑtɪk/
adjective
characteristic of or affected by neurosis
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1Musicians are at least as neurotic as everybody else, easily.
2So high neurotics have much more emotional fluidity.
3He's neurotic.
4She's neurotic.
5High neurotics get a bad rap.
melancholic
/ˌmɛɫənˈkɑɫɪk/
adjective
characterized by or causing or expressing sadness
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1With melancholic depression, you don't have much positive response when good things happen.
2And with melancholic depression, you lose your appetite and you may lose weight.
3With melancholic depression, you can be very slowed down where you move about slowly.
4And with melancholic depression you feel worse first thing in the mornings.
5whatever and I'm not I'm not so melancholic
manic
/ˈmænɪk/
adjective
affected with or marked by frenzy or mania uncontrolled by reason
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1But manic episodes usually require medication.
2This part is manic.
3His style becomes more manic.
4Trump was very manic throughout.
5Recognize a manic stage.
madly
/ˈmædɫi/
adverb
in an insane manner
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1He falls madly in love.
2I was madly in love with my job.
3She's madly in love with him.
4Meanwhile, this cat is just madly in love.
5He was madly in love.
mad
/ˈmæd/
adjective
affected with madness or insanity
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1She certainly did not look desperate or mad enough to have tried to murder her master.
2If you were mad, I wouldn't hate you.
3I shall be alone with that mad woman upstairs.
4They're all mad!
5The whole country went mad.
hysterical
/hɪˈstɛɹɪkəɫ/
adjective
characterized by or arising from psychoneurotic hysteria
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1It's hysterical.
2And the headlines from the time are hysterical.
3Yeah, death is hysterical.
4Cats are hysterical.
5You guys are hysterical.
deranged
/dɪˈɹeɪndʒd/
adjective
incapable of behaving normally or thinking clearly due to mental illness
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1From the inside-looking out, it feels all very deranged.
2I become deranged for three turns.
3He sees deranged conspiracies everywhere.
4The lovable little creature looks more like a deranged hobo who's been trapped on the ice for 40 years.
5My name is Deranged Pitt.
depressed
/dɪˈpɹɛst/
adjective
feeling very unhappy and having no hope
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1The boy becomes depressed.
2The revolution is depressed.
3Other moderators become depressed.
4Other moderators become depressed.
5Patients become depressed.
demented
/dɪˈmɛntɪd/
adjective
affected with madness or insanity
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1Some parents even looked at the demented Countess as a source of ready revenue, selling their children to her for a lump sum.
2You know Furbys say demented stuff like, "Oh, chop me in half."
3This is like a punishment on a demented internet show.
4We also can confirm that it’s not a person stalking them, this thing has a demented claw hand.
5The two demented prodigy spend seven months making their murderous plans.
confused
/kənˈfjuzd/
adjective
mentally confused; unable to think with clarity or act intelligently
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1- You guys look confused.
2My patients are confused.
3Confused, the tortoise changes his course, away from the little owl's nest.
4Confused, the tortoise changes his course, away from the little owl's nest.
5My patients are confused.
bipolar
/baɪˈpoʊɫɝ/
adjective
having or marked by both manic and depressive episodes
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1Bipolar strategies are vastly better than mono strategies.
2She's so Bipolar.'
3If we had Bipolar Two.
4She's bipolar.
5I have bipolar depression.

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