An instance of a disease or poor health.
'illness' is correct and usable in written English. You can use it to refer to a person's physical or mental condition which requires medical attention or causes discomfort. Example sentence: My father has been suffering from a chronic illness which has led to considerable loss of mobility.
Our tendency to slip into predetermined patterns isn't reserved solely for those facing the big issues, from mental illness to addiction, bereavement to ill health.
Or is it the other way around: that the kind of people who make it to the top of this game are the kind of intense, driven individuals whose very self-obsession makes them more vulnerable to mental illness?
I am miserable because one of the two people I love most is not recovering from his illness.
Durst's lawyers expressed concern mostly about ease of access to their client, although they also told the court they did not believe their client suffered from "an acute mental illness", according to the court filings.
In the eight months since the killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown brought increased focus on police violence, more and more officer-involved shootings that also involve mental illness have come to light.
For example, Richard Layard's work on happiness has focused a great deal of attention on mental illness.
She knew I would write about her fatal illness".
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