The word “schizophrenia” is less than 100 years old. However the disease was first identified as a discrete mental illness by Dr. Emile Kraepelin in the 1887 and the illness itself is generally believed to have accompanied mankind through its history.
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Its time to rethink and relabel schizophrenia
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bring back the old name id like
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What would be a better name?
Metime’s Disease …
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Mortimerism
We should call it Mortimer’s Disease
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They changed the manic depressive thing to bipolar… Maybe schizophrenia should be changed as well, since half of the world seems to think its DID
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I just don’t want to have to learn to spell a new, long, weird, word.
Dementia praecox sounds nicer than schizophrenia. Maybe it’s because it’s a less notorious name