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病む [ichi1,news2,nf26]
やむ [ichi1,news2,nf26]
1. [v5m,vi]
▶ to fall ill
2. [v5m,vt]
▶ to suffer from (e.g. a disease)
▶ to have something wrong with (e.g. an inner organ)
3. [v5m,vt] [col]
▶ to be depressed
▶ to feel down
▶ to have mental health issues

Conjugations


History:
7. A 2025-11-25 03:59:32  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Comments:
Seems OK. Perhaps [col] rather than [sl].
  Diff:
@@ -30,2 +30 @@
-<misc>&sl;</misc>
-<gloss>to have mental health issues</gloss>
+<misc>&col;</misc>
@@ -33,0 +33 @@
+<gloss>to have mental health issues</gloss>
6. A* 2025-11-20 20:33:48  K. Birch <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
In common parlance, the 3rd meaning is arguably the most common when used in isolation (metaphorical "illness of the heart/mind" rather than literal sickness.) A Google search for 病んでる shows articles like this (the first article notes the modern usage of 病む):
https://sanyokai-clinic.com/kokoro/4139/
https://uruoi-clinic.jp/mental-column/mental-clinic/how-to-deal-with-mental-illness/

Entries already exist that are derived from sense 3: ヤンデレ (病んでる+デレデレ、mentally ill while also madly in love) and 病み垢 (social media account where someone dumps their negative feelings).
  Comments:
Both used to describe genuine mental health issues (often depression), but also in a hyperbolic way of "I'm feeling down."
  Diff:
@@ -25,0 +26,8 @@
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&v5m;</pos>
+<pos>&vt;</pos>
+<misc>&sl;</misc>
+<gloss>to have mental health issues</gloss>
+<gloss>to be depressed</gloss>
+<gloss>to feel down</gloss>
5. A 2024-02-11 17:16:44  Stephen Kraus <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
疚む
https://www.kanjipedia.jp/kotoba/0001388500
>> 病気になる。ながわずらいをする。「大病を―む」

No counts for 疚む (incl. inflected forms) in the google corpus.

Kyoto/Melbourne N-gram Corpus Counts
╭─ーー─┬───╮
│ 疚む │ 1 │
╰─ーー─┴───╯
  Comments:
Not sure 疚む is worth adding, but I'll leave this info here.
4. A 2019-02-20 22:21:18  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2019-02-20 13:58:58  Johan Råde <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
gg5 koj daijs
  Comments:
maybe clearer if we split into a [vi] and a [vt] sense
(koj splits this way)
  Diff:
@@ -18,0 +19,4 @@
+<gloss>to fall ill</gloss>
+</sense>
+<sense>
+<pos>&v5m;</pos>
@@ -20,3 +24,2 @@
-<gloss>to fall ill</gloss>
-<gloss>to suffer from</gloss>
-<gloss>to have something wrong with</gloss>
+<gloss>to suffer from (e.g. a disease)</gloss>
+<gloss>to have something wrong with (e.g. an inner organ)</gloss>
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