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That depends on who it is.
They can be.
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Mentally ill patients are rarely violent or in any other way dangerous to others. Mental illness covers depression, anxiety, schizophrenia/psychotic disorders, PTSD, Social Phobia, ADHD and numerous other illnesses. Episodes of ADHD, depression, PTSD, social phobia and anxiety are not commonly associated with violent acts.
Severity of mental illness also ranges greatly, from a person has a PhD in physics, a wife, 4 children and a very high paying job who gets panic attacks when in social situations or a social worker who has periods of depressed mood, disrupted sleep, fatigue, hopeless and isolation from others except when necessary, such as going to work to individuals with disorders such as a person diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder (a disorder characterized by impulsive, explosive and inappropriate reactions to people) who screams, throws lamps and punches staff members at a group home for no apparent reason or many individuals with psychosis and/or antisocial personality disorder.
Most movies have made the mentally ill out to be either savants or complete lunatics, when most people with mental illness live relatively normal lives.
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