T yler Durden, Raymond Babbitt and Arnie Grape. If our blockbuster and critically acclaimed movies such as Fight Club, Rain Man and What’s Eating Gilbert Grape can understand and accurately portray characters with mental health problems, then isn’t it time that society caught up?
“Ahh I’m so depressed”, “you must be crazy”, “she’s a psycho”… if you are guilty of using any of these phrases, then are you aware of the facts behind your words? In an age where mental illnesses are becoming increasingly and worryingly common, the truth of mental health conditions can be disguised in our language by daily use of adjectives to describe how we feel or how we view others.
The fact is, that depression is not an emotion nor a synonym for being sad; yet …show more content…
Although this may have meant that they saw them as unpredictable and outgoing, to those aware of medical jargon or who have had personal experience would have taken offense. A person is not “a psycho”, neither are they “psychotic”; the preferred terminology is “he/she experiences symptoms of psychosis” and many would argue that they should not be regarded that way unless they actually have an unstable mental disorder with ‘occasional violent outbursts’. Similarly, an individual should not be considered “a bipolar”, but “living with” or “has a diagnosis of bipolar disorder”. Political correctness is vital in this field to avoid stigmas that could potentially set someone with a mental health condition back, and see these inappropriate labels as …show more content…
Saying where they are on the scale of recovery is acceptable in the sense that we can all be made aware of how he/she is feeling.” She went on to say that “What is not appropriate is describing the actual condition as “feeling down” and defining it as a cluster of emotions that everyone goes
“Ahh I’m so depressed”, “you must be crazy”, “she’s a psycho”… if you are guilty of using any of these phrases, then are you aware of the facts behind your words? In an age where mental illnesses are becoming increasingly and worryingly common, the truth of mental health conditions can be disguised in our language by daily use of adjectives to describe how we feel or how we view others.
The fact is, that depression is not an emotion nor a synonym for being sad; yet …show more content…
Although this may have meant that they saw them as unpredictable and outgoing, to those aware of medical jargon or who have had personal experience would have taken offense. A person is not “a psycho”, neither are they “psychotic”; the preferred terminology is “he/she experiences symptoms of psychosis” and many would argue that they should not be regarded that way unless they actually have an unstable mental disorder with ‘occasional violent outbursts’. Similarly, an individual should not be considered “a bipolar”, but “living with” or “has a diagnosis of bipolar disorder”. Political correctness is vital in this field to avoid stigmas that could potentially set someone with a mental health condition back, and see these inappropriate labels as …show more content…
Saying where they are on the scale of recovery is acceptable in the sense that we can all be made aware of how he/she is feeling.” She went on to say that “What is not appropriate is describing the actual condition as “feeling down” and defining it as a cluster of emotions that everyone goes