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Definition of Mental Disorder

Section 1(2) Mental Health Act 2007 amended section 1(2) Mental Health Act 1983 and defines mental disorder as “any disorder or disability of the mind”.

Disorders or disabilities of the brain are not mental disorders unless, and only to the extent that, they give rise to a disability or disorder of the mind as well.

Examples of clinically recognised mental disorders include mental illnesses such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, anxiety or depression, as well as personality disorders, eating disorders, autistic spectrum disorders and learning disabilities.

“Learning disability” means “a state of arrested or incomplete development of the mind which includes significant impairment of intelligence and social functioning” (section 2(3) Mental Health Act 2007 inserts subsection 1(2A) into the Mental Health Act 1983).

Dependence on alcohol or drugs does not come within the meaning of “mental disorder” for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983 section 1(3). However, mental disorders which accompany or are associated with the use of or stopping the use of alcohol or drugs, even if they arise from dependence on those substances, may come within the meaning of “mental disorder” for the purposes of the Mental Health Act 1983.