Can we please please stop doing this?

[Stonepounder]

16. When I was a young child (from about 5 yo to about 10 yeo)

my father was a clinical psychologist at the Columbus (OH) State Hospital. He developed a program whereby patients (who were not on locked wards) would periodically have 'outings' where they would leave the hospitals and go to some kind of social event. It might be a group picnic, it might be a hike in a state park, it might be a mingle party at our house. There was only one rule we kids had and that was you never, ever asked someone whether they were patient or staff. Because most of the time you couldn't guess, and if you met a patient somewhere else you would never guess they were mentally ill. Never once did anyone ever get violent.

Mental Illness rarely expresses itself as violence.

(PS. My dad was a psychologist, me I was a computer geek, so this is just personal anecdote not a professional opinion.)