Difference between Mental Illness and Dementia Praecox

MENTAL ILLNESS vs DEMENTIA PRAECOX: NOUN

A mental disorder.
The property of being mentally ill; mental disorders taken as a whole.
Any disease of the mind; the psychological state of someone who has emotional or behavioral problems serious enough to require psychiatric intervention

Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia. No longer in scientific use.
Any of several psychotic disorders characterized by distortions of reality and disturbances of thought and language and withdrawal from social contact

Dementia, Drug addiction, Depressive disorder, Manic depression, Alcoholism, Depression, Psychiatric, Personality disorder, Paranoid schizophrenia, Psychosis, Mentally ill, Bipolar disorder, Mental health, Schizophrenia, Mental disease

Parasitosis, Dysthymic, Affective disorder, Puerperal psychosis, Antisocial personality disorder, Cryptogenic, Anosognosia, Tertiary syphilis, Prodromal, Hypochondriasis, Nosology, Neurasthenia, Schizophrenic psychosis, Schizophrenic disorder, Schizophrenia

Ptsd, Substance abuse, Dementia, Drug addiction, Depressive disorder, Manic depression, Alcoholism, Depression, Psychiatric, Personality disorder, Paranoid schizophrenia, Psychosis, Mentally ill, Bipolar disorder, Mental health

Neurosyphilis, Paresis, Diathesis, Parasitosis, Dysthymic, Affective disorder, Puerperal psychosis, Antisocial personality disorder, Cryptogenic, Anosognosia, Tertiary syphilis, Prodromal, Hypochondriasis, Nosology, Neurasthenia

NAMI believes that people with mental illness deserve access to effective medications that treat their mental illness.
When we see mental illness as an objective darkness that can be weaponized, it absolves those who think people with mental illness are evil.
Mental Illness Is the person using violence negatively impacting their mental health or causing or exacerbating their mental illness?
Priority should be given to persons with serious and persistent mental illness or acute mental illness.
Americans affected by mental illness, especially those with serious mental illness.
Grace identified fully with mental illness and mental illness constituted her identity as a person.
Dimensions of mental illness stigma: what about mental illness causes social rejection?
Examples of mental illness, when added to a definition of mental illness, help deepen our understanding of what mental disorders really are.
Mental illness affects behavior and behavior can affect mental illness, but mental illnesses are not behavioral.
Sandwiched between mental health and severe mental illness is a clinical category called mental illness.

Bleuler E: Dementia praecox oder Gruppe der Schizophrenien.
Dementia Praecox or the Group of Schizophrenias, trans.
This led Kraepelin to name what we now know as schizophrenia, dementia praecox (the dementia part signifying the irreversible mental decline).