While I understand what you’re trying to say here, most mentally ill people are quite harmless, and some of them you might even think of as “normal”.
Violently mentally ill people are the exception, not the norm.
There are violent mentally ill and there are nonviolent mentally ill. Whichenver you choose you will find that they tend to pick up on the subtext of the culture. Quickly.
There are more violent ones than you think, if you count every out of control psychotic break that occurs.
> ...and some of them you might even think of as “normal”.
I like to think that I am “normal”, for example. Most people do consider me “normal”, and they have difficulty believing that I have Depression and Bipolar Disorder.
I make it a point about telling people about this because so many people have the wrong idea about what mental illness is and what it is like.
Television and the news media are, as usual, unhelpful.
> There are more violent ones than you think, if you count every out of control psychotic break that occurs.
There are quite a few. However, I encounter many more violent drug abusers than violent mentally ill people.