| While I appreciate your sensitivity, I have a different view | |
| Posted by: Quicheo 11:39 am EDT 03/15/21 | |
| In reply to: re: With all due respect, your post is schizophrenic.... - KingSpeed 04:50 pm EST 03/12/21 | |
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| For background, I am a psychiatrist and brain researcher. I also have mental illness and several illnesses, including several Federally defined "Serious Mental Illnesses", run in my family--and members of my family have been working in the psychological fields since the 1930s. We are fun at parties. Thanksgiving at our house is...challenging for new romantic partners. There is a difference between the term "schizophrenic" and "Schizophrenia". One is a descriptor that indicates a disjointed "split" presentation, seeming to come from two places at once. One is an illness, originally tied to the term "schizophrenic" because of the seeming state of having a split mind within one brain. "Schizophrenic" has a life outside of "Schizophrenia" though, just as "depressed", "manic", "anxious", "obsessive", "compulsive", "defiant", "conduct', "antisocial", "organic", and myriad other terms do, while also being part of the basis for names of mental illnesses. I would hate to diminish the richness of our language because of mental health stigma. And it is, on some level, stigma. We can joke about something increasing our blood pressure or causing us to feel faint or work as back-breaking or mind-numbing. We joke about these things because they are shared parts of the human condition. So is mental illness. I hope we can get to a point where we are comfortable using terms of mental states as metaphor as well as diagnosis, because then they will be given proper place in the shared experience of life. That said, your heart is certainly in the right place. And I mean that metaphorically. And hopefully literally. |
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