{n.}, {slang}, {informal} A person judged emotionally so disturbed that people think he ought to see a psychiatrist (who, habitually, make their patients lie down on a couch). * /Joe's divorce messed him up so badly that he became a couch case./
COUCH CASE
Meaning of COUCH CASE in English
Slang English vocab. Английский сленговый словарь. 2012