mental patients
Institutionalized for illness
Mental patients are people receiving treatment for psychiatric disorders, typically in a hospital or institutional setting.
The term is now often avoided in favor of alternatives like "psychiatric patients" or "people with mental illness," which emphasize the person over the condition: The old asylum housed hundreds of mental patients.
Mental patient can carry stigmatizing connotations of dangerousness or unpredictability.
- bedFurniture for slumber
- asylumShelter from persecution
- psychiatric wardHospital mental health section
- stigmaMark of dishonor
- nurseHealthcare provider, bedside
empathy · alienated · misunderstood · compassion · counseling · group therapy · talk therapy · support group · gown · prejudice · pills · ignorance · humanity · kindness · ostracism · schizophrenia · resilience · recovery
mental patientspsychiatrists
Mental health physicians
mental health professionals · psychiatric nurses · therapists · psychologists · orderlies
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