Category:Maddening

Maddening is the provocation in living creatures of a loss of mental health that compromises the soundness of their minds. It results in a captivity of the mind, with the capacity for thought or for action being qualitatively compromised such that behaviour becomes abnormal. As such, it concerns madness, madmen, those with the personality trait of being mad, causes of madness including madness saves, treatments for madness, mental illness facilities, inhabitants of mental illness facilities, alienism, and alienists.