What do you think of the word ''schizophrenia''

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It has been ingrained too deep into medicine and society. It is an understatement; our minds are shattered, not just split nice and clean in half.

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What makes you think that anything else you call it, society won’t get the same impression re. that?

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What makes you think that anything else you call it, society won’t get the same impression about that?

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The word has been stigmatized

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The condition has been stigmatized. Changing the label won’t change the perception.

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It inspires floccinaucinihilipilification.

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Bipolar used to have an old name. It was called “Manic depression”. Then, manic depression got stigmatized. So, they gave it a new name: “Bipolar”. I can’t think of anything more stigmatized than “Bipolar” today. No, changing the name never helps. A rotten disease is a rotten disease, and the public knows it, one way or the other.

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You mean “flatulenia”.

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Im okay with it, but if they change thename I hope they pick a name that would portray schziophrenics as nice, compassionate people.

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I don’t mind the term. I think its phonetics are mysterious and that seems apt to the experience of it. I don’t mind calling myself a schizophrenic either, instead of ‘a person that has been diagnosed with schizophrenia’, seems a mouthful to me.

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i was onced called peter suthcliff by a brother

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I like the Japanese term. I read that they call it an ‘integration disorder.’ If that’s true, its nice. It’s hard to make it sound sinister.

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It adds more negative connotations to an already negative experience… I love integration disorder too which gets away from the humiliating insinuations!

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It’s a word and without it there is no existence of what it represents. There is no stigma without the word, just an experience.

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It is a very big word that seems rather ethereal with a lot of different directions.

Everyone thinks they know exactly what it means… and what it is… but then… there is all this debate about what it is… and what it encompasses.

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I came up with a cuter term for schizophrenia. I call myself skitzy in my head. I’m thinking of saying to myself that I’m just kinda skittles because that sounds like the word for schizophrenia too and is much cuter.

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Schizophrenia is the worst of all mental illness.I prefer depression or Social Anxiety,sounds better and less disabling