The writer took a class of college students to the state hospital for the mentally ill in St. Joseph, Missouri.

Kansas, regarded as tops in the nation in its treatment of the mentally ill, spends $9 per day per patient.

It seemed incredible, as I listened to the monotonous drone of voices and smelled the fetid odors coming from the patients, that technically I was a ward of the state of Illinois, going to a hospital for the mentally ill.

* 2001 – Erwadi fire incident, 28 mentally ill persons tied to chain were burnt to death at a faith based institution at Erwadi, Tamil Nadu.

In the following year, he spent five months assisting mentally ill women, before he took an office in the city mental asylum in Frankfurt am Main: the Städtische Anstalt für Irre und Epileptische ( Asylum for Lunatics and Epileptics ).

Amok was officially classified as a psychiatric condition in 1849 based on the numerous reports and case studies which showed that the majority of individuals who committed amok were, in some sense, mentally ill.

Weissman has also argued that Chaplin's problematic relationship to his mentally ill mother was often reflected on the female characters in his films and the Tramp's desire to save them.

Also, some mentally ill people obsess about eating others and actually do so, such as Jeffrey Dahmer and Albert Fish.

These individuals are usually considered to be mentally ill, although the compulsion to eat human flesh is not formally listed as a mental disorder in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ).

Clairaudience may be positively distinguished from the voices heard by the mentally ill when it reveals information unavailable to the clairaudient person by normal means ( including cold reading or other magic tricks ), and thus may be termed " psychic " or paranormal.

The " interventions " advocated and practiced by eugenicists involved prominently the identification and classification of individuals and their families, including the poor, mentally ill, blind, deaf, developmentally disabled, promiscuous women, homosexuals and entire racial groups — such as the Roma and Jews — as " degenerate " or " unfit "; the segregation or institutionalisation of such individuals and groups, their sterilization, euthanasia, and in the extreme case of Nazi Germany, their mass extermination.

However, courts and various levels of government have indicated that the right is not without limit, and restrictions such as a prohibition of certain persons from owning or handling a gun ( convicted felons, mentally ill persons, persons under a restraining order ), a ban on certain types of ammunition ( armor-piercing, incendiary / tracer, explosive ), registration and restriction of certain types of firearms ( automatic weapons, short-barrelled shotguns, certain types of modifications ), and licensing requirements for possession or for public carry, have often passed judicial scrutiny ( although some of these points remain untested and others are currently under challenge ).

A defendant claiming insanity is pleading " not guilty by reason of insanity " ( NGRI ) or " guilty but insane / mentally ill " in some jurisdictions which, if successful, may result in the defendant being committed to a psychiatric facility for an indeterminate period.

Little is known about the criminal justice system and the mentally ill:

However, a mentally ill defendant / patient can be found unfit to stand trial in these states.

The test has much more lenient guideline for the insanity defense, but it addressed the issue of convicting mentally ill defendants, which was allowed under the M ' Naghten Rule.

::( a ) the person appears to be mentally ill ; and

Separate sections deal with mentally ill criminal offenders.

John and his brothers spent many of their younger years living within the grounds of these institutions, which had a great bearing on John's later deep understanding of the needs of the mentally ill. John was educated at Scotch College, Melbourne, matriculating in 1928.

These experiments mostly consisted of injecting urine from mentally ill patients into the abdomen of guinea pigs.

These would appear to die faster than when healthy persons ' urine was used, leading him to think that perhaps more uric acid was present in the samples provided by his mentally ill patients.

When early sexologists in the late 19th century began to categorize and describe homosexual behavior, hampered by a lack of knowledge about lesbianism or women's sexuality, they distinguished lesbians as women who did not adhere to female gender roles and designated them mentally ill.

" Lunatic " is an informal term referring to people who are considered mentally ill, dangerous, foolish or unpredictable ; conditions once called lunacy.

The general public have been found to hold a strong stereotype of dangerousness and desire for social distance from individuals described as mentally ill. A US national survey found that a higher percentage of people rate individuals described as displaying the characteristics of a mental disorder as " likely to do something violent to others ", compared to the percentage of people who are rating individuals described as being " troubled ".

Violence that does occur in relation to mental disorder ( against the mentally ill or by the mentally ill ) typically occurs in the context of complex social interactions, often in a family setting rather than between strangers.

Finally, the changes are " future paced " by helping the client to mentally rehearse and integrate the changes into his or her life.

For example, the client may be asked to " step into the future " and represent ( mentally see, hear and feel ) what it is like having already achieved the outcome.

Benny Stulwitz, a mentally retarded clerk at the office, has sex with the mentally retarded daughter of a client of the firm.

Quick's attorney also maintains that his client is mentally ill and had been under the influence of narcotics prescribed by a doctor when he confessed to the killings.

The detective, commenting on Barco's behavior, felt that he merely belonged among the myriad citizens of our community who are mentally unhinged -- that he was a more or less harmless `` nut ''!!

According to local West Memphis police officers, on the evening of May 5, 1993, at 8: 42 p. m., workers in the Bojangles ' restaurant about a mile from the crime scene in Robin Hood Hills reported seeing a black male who seemed " mentally disoriented " inside the ladies ' room of the restaurant.

The overwhelming majority of those who describe their use of Datura find their experiences extremely unpleasant both mentally and physically and often physically dangerous.

* math enthusiasts who can in less than 25 seconds mentally solve 2 x 5 digit multiplication problems ( e. g., 23 x 48, 856 ) that have been presented orally by the researcher.

There were also many groups, such as homosexuals, the mentally handicapped and those who were physically challenged from birth, which were singled out as being detrimental to Aryan purity.

An idiot, dolt, or dullard is a mentally deficient person, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way.

In 2007 the code was amended to read " persons who are mentally incapacitated.

In an interview with Frederick Chapman, a Harvard graduate and Fulbright scholar who met Baba during a year of study in India, Baba stated that LSD is " harmful physically, mentally and spiritually ", and warned that " the continued use of LSD leads to madness or death.

An earlier ascetic named Macarius had earlier created a number of proto-monasteries called " larves ", or cells, where holy men would live in a community setting who were physically or mentally unable to achieve the rigors of Anthony's solitary life.

Those who were considered mentally challenged could be put to work and housed collectively while only criminals of intellect and vicious intent needed to be confined and isolated.

Phrenology also advocated variable prison sentences, the idea being that those who were only defective in education and lacking in morals would soon be released while those who were mentally deficient could be watched and the truly abhorrent criminals would never be released.

" His position is that logically we cannot assign animals a lesser value because of a perceived lack of rationality, while at the same time assigning a higher value to human beings who lack rationality, such as infants and the mentally impaired, solely on the grounds of their species membership.

The ban was partially lifted only for those who were mentally and physically prepared to participate in the tradition.

The Supreme Court declared executing the mentally handicapped in Atkins v. Virginia,, and executing people who were under age 18 at the time the crime was committed in Roper v. Simmons,, to be violations of the Eighth Amendment, regardless of the crime.

* The 1992 film The Lawnmower Man ( which bore little resemblance to the Stephen King story on which it was ostensibly based ) tells the tale of a research scientist who uses a VR system to jumpstart the mental and physical development of his mentally handicapped gardener.

Other stories include ludicrous " kiss and tell " and similar stories by people who are portrayed as mentally disturbed, often with highly bizarre elements ; examples include allegations by a man who claimed that, on holiday touring in his caravan, he found a campsite run by Elvis Presley who, when plied with drink, admitted to the Kennedy assassination ; another from a retired toilet attendant who described the nature of faeces from various little-known celebrities and an elderly woman who blames anti-social behaviour in her area on bored Newsnight presenters, as well as a mental home patient who claimed to have had sex with a number of children's TV puppets.