Schizophrenic is negative to me.
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I’m not a janitor. I just wander in different, strange office buildings at random and can’t stand to see dust and unvacuumed rugs so I clean them on a whim.
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It’s like how a person is not disabled, they are a person living with a disability. It’s about not defining yourself as your disease. It’s just part of the picture.
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yes I prefer it to be WITH a disability rather than schizophrenic I suppose it seperates the two somewhat, the disease and the individual person
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The best treatment team I ever had always told me that I am not my mental illness. Rather my mental illness makes up a small portion of what makes me, me. I find that a lot more positive way to look at it
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I was damn happy to give any name to what I was going through.
I was, like, if you’re old enough to bleed you’re a woman. I was good at correcting everyone as I went through the world. Then, in desperation, I ended up in a spiritual fellowship where 49 year old women wanted to be called girls. And I wanted their help.
The illiterate of the future will be those cannot learn, unlearn, and learn anew.
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Yeah. I use it all the time. I didn’t pick it but it’s stuck. I think it’s easier for diagnosis and most people think you’ve multiple personalities. Still. I admire your moxy but to me I use it when needed. I’m a paranoid schizophrenic. People often laugh at the paranoid. People are so weird!
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Why would it be any different from autistic or diabetic? It is only negative if you make it so.
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It really gets on my proverbial tits when its been said to me im “Schizo”. Theres something derogatory about it that pisses me off. Maybe im being a snowflake - but i prefer “Schizophenia Sufferer”.
Its been always said in a dismissive way to me - as if my feelings dont count - and thats all i am.
I agree. I say “person with sz”. I never say schizophrenic. The same way i say “person with obesity” i don’t usually say “the obese”. The same way i say “person with depression” not “the depressive” and so on… the Person is not the illness. In the other hand, i have to confess that “a person with diabetes” i say “diabetic”… anyway, in society “schizophrenic” is an agressive form of call someone. We can’t deny that. But it doesn’t bother me. I’m just saying i prefer the other way of saying it 
I don’t care how they say it. “Schizophrenic” sounds fine to me.
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Are you really from Scandinavia treebeard? That’s cool
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Yes. Why is it cool? Are you from Italy?
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I don’t know, it’s just cool that your a real person. Hahaha no I’m not, it’s ireland.
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I’ve always wanted to see Ireland! I will go on a vacation there sometime.
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Cool! Yeah it’s pretty nice scenery, good pubs not much else!
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We play with words, here.
Schizophrenic means a person with schizophrenia
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