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Originally posted by Chimney In all truthfulness, this entire 'mental patients are dangerous' has been completely exaggerated by pop-culture. I've done anamnesis on a couple of people suffering from antisocial personality disorder (i.e psychopaths) and they were relaxed as hell. Sure, one of them tried to kill his brother with a knife, but other than that, most were ok. The most dangerous - according to psychiatric guidelines - are maniacs (or bipolars during manic phase) and epileptics after the crisis due to confusion. Schizophrenics, which I´ve probably spoken to the most, have never exhibited any violent behaviour, although they were into remission and there was history of some stuff during psychosis episodes.

Am I serious to believe this? If so is this the answer I've so long searched for? I don't know yet if psychology is even a serious area of philosophical enquiry.