Descriptions & Equivalents
- 56 minute meltdown
- apeshit
- barking mad
- barmy (British)
- basket case
- bats
- behaved erratically
- belongs in a lunatic asylum
- bizarre beliefs
- bonkers
- brainsick
- certifiable
- check-up from the neck up
- complete sociopath
- coo coo-bananas
- crackpot beliefs
- cray cray
- defies logic
- demented
- delusional
- disoriented
- disturbed
- dumbstruck
- erratic
- escaped from a mental hospital
- fanatic
- flipped out
- freaky
- gone batshit crazy
- hadn't washed his hair in three months
- hears voices
- he's a crank
- insane from day one
- kooky
- like a pack of wild animals
- like a snake that'll strike any minute
- loopy
- loose cannon
- lost his mind
- mental issues
- mentally unstable
- meshugener (Yiddish)
- nut case
- nuts
- obsessed
- one card short of a full deck
- no conscience
- not of sound mind
- not quite right
- off the rails
- placed in involuntary psychiatric care
- rambling stream of consciousness
- screw loose
- screwy
- some nut
- spiking blood sugar
- stark raving mad
- talks to himself
- they are coming to take him away
- ticking time bomb waiting to blow
- treated for a psychotic episode
- turned ten kinds of crazy
- unbalanced
- unhinged
- unstable
- voices in his head
- went haywire/postal/nuclear/thermonuclear
- whacked out