What do you call a person in an asylum? An inmate? (Need a reply fast)?

Question

Please help?

Is it a guest? an inmate?

Answer 1

Prisoners are referred to as inmates.  A person that is in a mental health facility should be called a patient or a resident.  But, if the person is in a prison mental health facility, they are still an inmate.  

Answer 2

Usually called a resident.  

Answer 3

Formerly, it was "inmate". Asylum means a place where someone can go to escape punishment, as in by being declared mentally ill.

Today, mental health hospitals are rarely called "asylums" any more, so "patient" is more common, or some other fluffy sounding euphemism.  

Answer 4

If they are in a state mental health or private hospital they are called a patient.

If they are in a residential psychiatric program they are called a resident.

Anyone who receives mental health treatment is called a consumer.

Answer 5

The polite term would be to say "patient."  An asylum is, after all, a hospital; it is just a hospital which specializes in psychiatric care.  "Resident" would also be acceptable.  Terms such as "lunatic" would be derogatory.

Answer 6

A patient.