AIM The aim of this research is to compare the attitudes of psychiatric workers and other health workers towards patients suffering from mental illnesses. METHODS: 167 respondents participated in the research, of which 67 work in psychiatric wards, while 100 respondents do not work in psychiatric wards. The research was conducted from April to July 2023. The questionnaire Mental Illness: Clinicians' Attitudes Scale with 11 questions on sociodemographic characteristics was used. RESULTS: A statistically significant difference was found in the respondents' opinion about continuous learning about mental illnesses and reading additional materials, where respondents who do not work in psychiatry rarely point out that they learn about mental illnesses only when necessary, and that they rarely bother to research additional materials. A statistically significant difference was found among healthcare professionals who work in psychiatry, who have a one-point higher degree of agreement with the statement "Work in the field of mental health is equally valued as work in other areas of health and social care?" than healthcare professionals who do not work in psychiatry. No statistically significant difference was found between health professionals who work in psychiatry and those who do not in the use of words such as "crazy", "lunatic" and the like to describe people with mental illnesses that they encountered at work. In our research, we noticed statistically significant differences in the attitudes of healthcare workers towards topics related to mental illness. We noticed that the level of agreement with the statement "Persons suffering from mental illnesses can never recover enough to be able to lead a better quality of life" was one point higher among health professionals who work in psychiatry compared to those who do not work in psychiatry. CONCLUSION: Through the conducted research, we can conclude that healthcare professionals from both observed groups have a present empathy towards patients with mental illnesses, but that is why healthcare professionals from psychiatric wards in a higher percentage believe that mentally ill patients can recover. This makes them a group that, through their experience, perceives the concept of recovery differently because they know what that word means for a person suffering from mental illness