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"mental patient" includes those who have been suffering from debilitating depression / anxiety for years and it does not go away.
People who have suffered for 20 years, people that have to take 17 pills a day, that can't get out of bed, that cry for one or two hours every day. People who are so debilitated by their disease that their quality of life sucks. We have this compassion for people with physical ailments, why not mental? They are just as debilitating. It's parity. There is no parity for mental health care because some people don't believe it is real, or that it can hurt just as much as physical ailments. There is no parity in caring for those will mental illness (which is another thread entirely). I would never advocate for compassionate suicide for someone suffering from something, as one person called "'curable' as guilt, shame, or a broken heart"
dear taxigirl,depression and anxiety are not mental illness,but if it is a major depression,it may turn into a psychotic illness and that person may be called a mental patient.