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1
a person having or showing a severely disordered or abnormal state of mind
- brought in a counselor to work with the student they worried might be a head case
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- madman,
- madwoman
- manic-depressive,
- monomaniac,
- mythomaniac,
- neurotic,
- obsessive,
- obsessive-compulsive,
- paranoid,
- psychoneurotic,
- psychotic,
- schizo,
- schizoid,
- schizophrene,
- schizophrenic,
- sociopath
2
a person of odd or whimsical habits
- an area of scientific research that's a good niche for social misfits and hard-core head cases
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“Head case.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/head%20case. Accessed 30 Jul. 2021.
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The first known use of head case was in 1965
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