The phrase "troubled mind" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example: "He was plagued by a troubled mind, never able to find peace."
The old lyric concludes Is wont with speed to give redress, Of troubled mind for every sore, Sweet music hath a salve therefore.
There is an oddly dark undercurrent to these mundane and innocent stories of mean girls and confusing crushes, one that suggests an imaginative, if troubled, mind at work.
The point I'm making here is that the national ritual after every mass killing is to isolate the murderer and focus on his weirdness and inability to be normal: his "troubled mind," as Obama put it.
"Surely it affects our lives...when you leave for home with a troubled mind you will make trouble for the family members...and this affects children and your whole life... .....
The prettiness is enough to soothe a troubled mind.
Ease my troubled mind, and tell me yes.
Whether the well exists outside Naoko's troubled mind is irrelevant.
Why, the very thought could only be the product of a troubled mind.
Such a feat of compartmentalization bespeaks an efficient but troubled mind.
Later, Mr. Johnson said something else went through his troubled mind at that moment.
His works don't look like the products of a troubled mind.
