nut house
Mental health institution
A nut house is a psychiatric hospital or mental institution.
The term is informal and often dismissive or humorous: They'll cart me off to the nut house if I keep talking to myself.
It can also describe any chaotic place: This office is a nut house today.
Chaotic, disordered place
- loony binSlang psychiatric facility
- nuthouseSlang for asylum
- funny farmSlang psychiatric facility
- booby hatchDated slang for asylum
insane asylum · bedlam · lunatic asylum · snake pit · bughouse · rubber room · padded cell · straitjacket
Shelter from persecution
- psychiatric hospitalFacility for mental treatment
- institutionEstablished organization or custom
- sanatoriumFacility for prolonged recovery
- mental wardInpatient psychiatric facility
psych ward · clinic · facility · sanitarium · state hospital · inpatient · admission · commitment
Mentally unhinged
- insaneSeverely mentally disturbed
- lunaticDeranged or irrational person
- derangedMentally disturbed, irrational
- unhingedMentally or emotionally unstable
disturbed · unstable · mental · psycho · nutcase · whacko · demented · touched
Curative mental treatment
- medicationTherapeutic substance for illness
- electroshockElectrical brain stimulation therapy
- lobotomySevering prefrontal neural pathways
- restraintControl over impulses
sedation · antipsychotic · evaluation · diagnosis · psychiatry · psychotherapy · group therapy · treatment
madhouse
Chaotic, disordered place
- loony binSlang psychiatric facility
- nuthouseSlang for asylum
- funny farmSlang psychiatric facility
booby hatch · insane asylum · bedlam · lunatic asylum · snake pit · bughouse · rubber room · padded cell · straitjacket · committed
asylum
Shelter from persecution
- psychiatric hospitalFacility for mental treatment
- institutionEstablished organization or custom
- sanatoriumFacility for prolonged recovery
mental ward · psych ward · clinic · facility · sanitarium · state hospital · inpatient · admission · commitment · involuntary hold
crazy
Mentally unhinged
- insaneSeverely mentally disturbed
- lunaticDeranged or irrational person
- derangedMentally disturbed, irrational
unhinged · disturbed · unstable · mental · psycho · nutcase · whacko · demented · touched · madman
therapy
Curative mental treatment
- medicationTherapeutic substance for illness
- electroshockElectrical brain stimulation therapy
- lobotomySevering prefrontal neural pathways
restraint · sedation · antipsychotic · evaluation · diagnosis · psychiatry · psychotherapy · group therapy · treatment · observation