mentally ill

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adjective

having a mental illness.

noun (used with a plural verb)

Usually the mentally ill . mentally ill persons collectively.

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Origin of mentally ill

First recorded in 1935–40

Words nearby mentally ill

mentalism, mentalist, mentality, mental lexicon, mentally, mentally ill, mental reservation, mental retardation, mental telepathy, mentation, mentee

How to use mentally ill in a sentence

Meanwhile, the number of mentally ill residents sitting in jail cells ballooned.
Crisis counselors are being hailed as police alternatives. It’s too heavy a burden, some say.|Rebecca Tan|June 16, 2021|Washington Post
Escondido continues to grapple with the deadly shooting last week of a mentally ill homeless man, but police have still not released body-worn camera footage of the incident.
Morning Report: The YMCA Is at a Crossroads|Voice of San Diego|April 29, 2021|Voice of San Diego
For decades, legislators underfunded mental health care and imprisoned mentally ill people.
History's Lesson for Activists Who Want to Defund the Police|Sarah E. Ryan|April 20, 2021|Time
The deinstitutionalization movement succeeded in reducing the mass warehousing of old and mentally ill people.
History's Lesson for Activists Who Want to Defund the Police|Sarah E. Ryan|April 20, 2021|Time

Old and mentally ill people were soon overrepresented among the homeless, in poor neighborhoods and in prisons.
History's Lesson for Activists Who Want to Defund the Police|Sarah E. Ryan|April 20, 2021|Time
One in five Pennsylvania inmates are classified as mentally ill.
Here’s a Reform Even the Koch Brothers and George Soros Can Agree On|Tina Brown|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
We have 10 times as many mentally ill individuals behind bars than in psychiatric hospitals.
Here’s a Reform Even the Koch Brothers and George Soros Can Agree On|Tina Brown|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They want to hold the seat that Giffords had to give up after being shot in the head by a mentally ill man.
The Battle Is On in Gabby Giffords’s Old District|Eleanor Clift|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Everyone agrees that guns should be kept out of the hands of the mentally ill, even the National Rifle Association.
Stop Me Before I Buy a Gun Again, Begs Bipolar Man|Eleanor Clift|June 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In many states, the mentally ill or intellectually disabled could be sterilized.
One Breakdown Can Mean Losing Your Kid Forever|ProPublica|May 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Because, my dear friend, you are mentally ill, and I wish to cure you.
In Search of a Son|William Shepard Walsh
Seward said that insane people were simply those who were mentally ill, and that "Hospital" was the proper term.
Little Journeys To the Homes of the Great, Volume 3 (of 14)|Elbert Hubbard
Yet if he came in contact with disease in another creature it left him mentally ill.
Narcissus|Evelyn Scott
She had insight in so far as she knew she had been mentally ill.
Benign Stupors|August Hoch
He was mentally ill, to a point where he had through his delusions driven away all his old-time friends.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 2 of 14|Elbert Hubbard

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