I was thinking that the name ‘schizophrenia’ is outdated, but I can understand how some people might be attached to it. I don’t like it because people call us ‘schizos’ but that probably wont go away right away if the name did change. Aside from the poll what names do you think would be good to replace ‘schizophrenia’ if there was a rebranding to create new and better understanding of the disease based on new and better understandings of the disease.
None of the name changes have solved the underlying issues. Maybe we should worry more about dealing with the problem than giving it a better sounding name?
There are First Nations in my country that do not have clean drinking water and have not had this in decades. Women living there endure more violence than white women in a city. Drug problems are amplified. First Nations are waaaay over represented in our prisons. Let’s do something about that first. Screw arguing about names, let’s make some better lives for people.
I think that however the word schizophrenia evolves, one thing we should not do and be more diligent about is to not prescribe a label onto people. It all boils down to, in my opinion, that people are a lot more than an illness. Indeed, the illness, physical or mental, does not define who you are.
