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Irish_Dem

(81,261 posts)
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 09:54 AM Nov 2024

This is why the mental health profession has to keep re-naming disorders and conditions.

The public starts to use the dx as pejorative and insult.

So then we have to change the diagnostic manuals to something neutral,
the public then uses that in a nasty way, then we have to change that too.

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