I hate those words when used to describe me. my in laws use those words all the time when describing my illness to their family and my partner knows I hate those words because I feel like it’s say “she’s schizophrenic or she’s a schizo” and that’s the end of describing me as a person. I am no longer myself I am my illness.
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I absolutely and unequivocally detest the short-hand “schizo.” “Oh, I’m having a schizo day,” or, “Then he got all upset and started acting like a schizo,” and on and on make my blood boil. Can’t fuckiing stand that ■■■■.
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sorry if I offended you with it, I didn’t mean to
No no, you’re fine @cbbrown. Your topic didn’t upset me. When people use those lines I mentioned above is what pisses me off. You’re my buddy. 
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hate being called that myself…makes me feel less human. but I am not above using it maliciously on people who piss me off…because I know that a ‘normal’ person who gets called this will react with anger and maybe violence, and I respond in kind
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please please pardon my ignorance but what is wrong with schizophrenic? Schizo is horrible I agree. I don’t know why they feel the need to share that with other people.
Take no offense the normies know not what they speak. It makes it easier to have thick skin and not take things so personal. If their oppinions were worth caring about they would get to know you before just tossing you into the pile of i know the word but lack the understanding of.
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Some people are just past the point of change. It’s a threat. Schizo is bad, mental illness is bad, immigrants are bad. It’s all the same to them. Treat them with compassion and they will treat it as condescending. Where does it end?
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I hate being called a schizo… it’s a word that just adds to the stereotype.
As far as being called schizophrenic… I’ve been able to get people to stop doing that by telling them… I’m human with Sz… human first…
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If that works for you it’s fine of course… I think it is also the recommended way of talking among health care professionals, there was an article on here that showed it reduced stigma I think.
Personally, I have no problems with others or myself calling me a schizophrenic. I call and answer to lots of names… I’m also a student. No need for me to emphasize I’m a human person there… so then I wonder, why would I like to do that in case of schizophrenia… The human part goes without saying, it seems to me. Wouldn’t thinking otherwise be also some kind of self-stigma?
Well I feel it doesn’t help that the term schizophrenia is a mostly worthless term that basically means, “Doctors don’t know what is wrong with this person, don’t even have a name for what is wrong let alone understand it, so they just shoved it all under this big umbrella that could mean anything from being in a mental to coma, to thinking the government if after you, to hallucinating the apocalypse, and beyond.” If professionals don’t want there to be stigma, then maybe they should start with getting rid of their ■■■■■■■■ terminology.
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most people don’t know what schizophrenic means
good for you. no longer defining myself by my illness was a pleasant turning point for me.
That’s a good point too…
I did indulge in a lot of “Poor Me” when I was younger… didn’t like myself… lot’s of negative self talk…
maybe when I’m more comfortable in my own skin… a lot of things will slide off my back more.
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I’m sorry to hear that, take their categorizing of you as a grain of salt, surely they are the ones who are ill for doing so.
Hi all, I hate to be called a schizo and I often worry how my insensitive family are labeling me- maybe ill ask them tomorrow when I visit them
Kate xxx
Some of my students have autism, and most adults refer to those kids as “autistic”, and I don’t like that because they are individuals with autism. I would not allow someone to call me “a schizophrenic”, and certainly not “schizo”; really?!! It’s either lazy, ignorant or disrespectful, and I don’t appreciate or deserve such disregard. Let’s pick a condition of theirs and label them by it: are they overweight? Let’s call them fatties. Not nice, and I wouldn’t do that. I’m not in the least embarrassed or ashamed of any condition of mine, but I don’t want a single one to define all of me.
I don’t know what it is I just hate that word cause they are using a stereotype to define me and sometimes other people that aren’t mentally ill but just a little bit not normal.
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Illnesses are not adjectives. It makes so mad when people use the loosely as such.
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surely, you must mean some of the individuals who study with you 