Talk:mentally ill

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mentally ill

RFV sense.—msh210℠ 20:07, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

• Note that if this cannot be verified then the remaining sense is likely deletable as a sum of its parts.—msh210℠ 20:08, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

I don't know how we'd verify this, but that's what it means to me. I'd use "mental illness" for just about any mental disorder, but "mentally ill" for very few — only the ones that I might call "crazy". (So, for example, people with major depression, or obsessive compulsive disorder, or generalized anxiety disorder, or attention deficit disorder, all suffer from mental illness, but aren't "mentally ill" in my book.) —Ruakh_TALK 23:19, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

WordNet agrees with this. [1] -- Visviva 15:34, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Seems to be used with a specific legal meaning which is not too far from the one given. [2] Black's does not define the adverb, but gives two senses for "mental illness" which are more or less in line with this sense (substantially incapacitated; requiring care). Difficult to find unambiguous non-legal use, or intelligible legal use. -- Visviva 15:34, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Fine, striking.—msh210℠ 23:57, 20 May 2009 (UTC)