I, too, prefer the term patient. I always refer to "us" as patients rather than client/service user. For the same reasons that we don't want to further separate mental health problems from physical ones. They're all just illnesses, there to be fought and/or understood, for mechanisms to learn for coping.
We had this discussion during a cig break on the ward the other night, the member of staff said there'd been a survey done, not sure if it's just in this area or nationwide, and it said that the results for people prefering "patient", "client" or "service user" all came out equal.
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