Synonyms for mentally ill
men·tally ill

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1. mentally ill, unsound, unstableadjective

   suffering from severe mental illness

   "of unsound mind"

   Synonyms:
   bad, unfit, fallacious, unstable, precarious, unsound, fluid

   Antonyms:
   sane

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1. Robert Hanlon:

   These crimes are often preventable if family members are more informed about the potential danger from having someone who is severely mentally ill in the home and who may have shown violent tendencies in the past, family members may lull themselves into a state of false beliefs thinking ‘ my son would never hurt me ’ or ‘ my husband may have a short fuse but he would never seriously harm me. ’.

2. Photographer Valerio Bispuri:

   I photographed (prisoners) during leisure time as they tried to mimic the world outside by playing football, pretending they are in a bar, lifting weights at a gym, some were born into the delinquent world, others were there for a lapse of judgment at some point in their lives. Others were mentally ill, but a great number were there because of drugs.

3. Bill Jallah:

   People said: 'he must have been violent during the war', before throwing stones and coming at me with sticks, many struggle to believe a mentally ill person can have a job and a wife - and be a fully functioning member of society.

4. Ron Honberg:

   If he's executed there should be a sense of outrage, there's no question he's mentally ill. If this happens, the message would be --' we just don't care.'.

5. Betsy Brantner-Smith:

   As a police officer for 29 years, I did everything from, dealt with mentally ill people … to negotiating people into letting their hostages go and talking to people out of killing themselves and delivering a baby, and tasering somebody 30 years younger than me through a neighborhood who just committed a burglary, and everything in between, in today's atmosphere, [there is] the expectation that police officers are going to have so much more specialty training, especially when we're talking about mental illness and and utilization of various different kinds of weapons and making sure that we're always exactly within policy and things like that.