Actually and unfortunately it is not. The mental patient is no longer being imprisoned among four walls that to the glance of many constituted the solution of the problem but, this just resulted partially and in a cosmetic way. Starting from mental health professionals and ending in the more common of the citizens, the exclusion should give place to an open door, the door of our heart that will allow to treat the mental patient with the love, respect and dignity that any one of us would like to be treated and that with no doubt he deservers and has the right to. Despite not being a mental disease, suicide may be triggered by a mental disorder. Not all suicides are caused by a mental disorder but we know that being mentally ill may constitute a risk factor for attempting against ones life.
Mental health is thus as important in suicide prevention as it is in life quality preservation.
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