Why Are We Still Calling People ‘Schizophrenic’?

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A rose by any other name…

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The name needs to be changed. Calling someone in a confused state a gobbeldygook name is cruel.

How did my wife become part of this conversation?

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I used to think Schizophrenic mean’t Psychopath? I never had a clue

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I tried go understand it literally when I was younger, not fully realizing it is a nonsensical term.

I had a friend from a hostel who me and boyfriend moved in with in Leicester when i was 18. He was sz the friend and into his drugs and martial arts. He used to own all kinds of martial arts stuff and would get targeted by teenagers a few times in the park, police would be taking his stuff off him. He was harmless thou would do anything for anybody.

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I feel psychiatry needs to incorporate emotions and emotional wellbeing more than it does. It kinda minimises this a lot. Especially in the case of mental issues, psychiatric non conforming situations like psychosis

Can you explain? I dont understand

Happy, sad, confused, neutral and everything in-between is never accounted for. We call situations triggers rather than trying to understand the logic behind why we were triggered by something. We ignore the emotion we felt and throw it onto psychologists and create a two disciplines - chemistry/anatomy vs emotions. Not sure if this simplifies or words it even more, but does make sense to me

Do you mean not enough feedback from professionals about why something triggers us?

No, I do mean literally, emotions against chemistry.

Change the name nothing changes want proof

Look at manic depressive its now bipolar and nothing changed

Sorry do you mean emotions instead of chemistry by drs?

I must sound a bit thick tonight lmao

Im going a bit nuts

No, stuff happens. I’m sure it’ll make sense for the most part; I don’t know how much I can elaborate without going crazy myself lol

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Fair enough lol

Changing the name doesn’t make it any less of the devastating disorder it is

If it can help with the stigma though, I’m all for it. Change it if you must!

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Lets call it frektoscitermofiguininty :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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So people can wastte time thinking about it

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