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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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#5086fluid
#10488unstable
#29642unfit
#37328precarious
#53805unsound
#74880fallacious

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  1. Senior Officer Deon Joseph:

    It is a predators' paradise. They are attracted to this place. They often target the mentally ill, some of whom are nonverbal, others who believe they are Santa Claus and no one is going to believe a word they say.

  2. White House:

    It's not the politician's fault when someone acts out their evil intention, quite frankly, it's ridiculous to try and make those connect in some way. You have to blame the people here who pulled the trigger. Those are the ones who are evil, those are the ones who are sick and mentally ill and those are the ones who have to be dealt with.

  3. 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.'.

  4. Donald Trump:

    We're going to be looking at that very closely and we're looking at the whole gun situation. I do want people to remember the words mental illness. These people are mentally ill and nobody talks about that, but these are mentally ill people. And people have to start thinking about it, i think we have to start building institutions again because President Donald Trump know, if President Donald Trump look at the'60s and the'70s, so many of these institutions were closed, and the people were just allowed to go onto the streets. And that was a terrible thing for our country. ... A lot of our conversation has to do with the fact that we have to open up institutions. We can't let these people be on the streets.

  5. Utica Police Chief Mark Williams:

    Personally, I've been on this job 27 years and it's one of the more gruesome scenes I've seen, a lot of cities in this country are struggling with the mentally ill.


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  • πνευματικά άρρωστοςGreek
  • mielialahäiriöinen, mielisairasFinnish
  • मानसिक रूप से बीमारHindi
  • bolnav mintalRomanian

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