I often use the term schizophrenic or manic depressive except when I'm dealing with people in authority.
I hate having to use any other labels. Schizophrenics and manic depressives are a phenotype expressed from a genotype, most likely. They're things and they're people but they're not diseases. The noun is appropriate and correct.
Some may consider me insenstive but I'm not. I care deeply for my people. I am passionate and fight tooth and nail for them. We are the oppressed.
One of the tools of oppression is the idea that it's an illness. We all know that illnesses are treated by doctors to remove them. That's real illness anyway to which the paradigm of medicine can be applied.
Mental illness is well evidenced using the paradigm. There's evidence of biological differences and hereditary predispositions for homosexuals.
Oh shit. They're not mentally ill any more. Some doctors finally listen and decided this thing which fits the paradigm of illness is not longer an illness.
Oh. No. Wait. I'm still making a point. The gay or the homosexual is someone who's a thing and nouns are used. They're not people with an illness diagnosed as homosexuality. They're not free black people put in a situation where they're slaves and their insanity is running away from their subjugation (the mental illness know as drapteomania).
We are a type of person, one which was rejected by society and it's values of normality and acceptable behaviour. Psychiatry simply applied biomedical thinking to a social problem. The masses, amazed by science, came to understand it was an illness because they were told it was when, in truth, it isn't.
In medical textbooks mental illnesses are referred to as behavioural and emotional disorders. In older literature the use of nouns is common.
Today it isn't, at least what the public read. The read about distress and mental health problems because the politically correct movement have chosen to change the language because they never understood the concept. They confused psychopathology with distress. They confused illness with a social problem. And they were very effective in what they did: propaganda.
The soft language deemed acceptable today reinforces the psychiatric hegemony and inadvertently misappropriates what is a nebulous concept, mental health, which has been a signifcant endeavour to me to make, for want of a better word, non-nebulous.
What I mean is they've shifted the concept which everyone has, with all the best intent in the world, but allowed psychiatry's power to become even stronger.
They've made it even more acceptable to change. The paradigm of medicine is almost as powerful as the paradigm of happiness or capacity to enforce behavioural, social and cultural norms which fall outside the remit of either crime or healthcare.
Just think of the symptoms and diagnoses which are no longer mental illness or not diagnosed as mental illness.
Better yet. Get your head around Foucault's Madness and Civilisation. The whole thing's a fucking construct which was created because society rejected difference.
Then you'll begin to understand that it isn't an illness, it doesn't need to be 'treated' in the individual and the individuals themselves have a right to exist as they are. That's a fucking human right the Human Rights Act takes away and gives no protections for.
All because of confusion in language and true concepts.
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