One of the many problems confronted in society by the ex-mental patient involves the social stigma which adheres to identification with mental illness. The stigma of having been a patient usually means that the ex-patient encounters discrimination, e.g., in employment opportunities, after discharge from a hospital. Another view holds that such discrimination now does not exist. Persons identifying themselves as mental patients were refused rooms for rent significantly more often than were persons using no mental illness identification. Some implications of the results were discussed.