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15. What is meant by "gone crazy"? Is it meant in the clinical sense?
Sun Oct 7, 2018, 09:59 AM
Oct 2018

Because I have a goddaughter who has paranoid schizophrenia and she has been called "crazy" yet she is mentally ill with a disease and cannot help herself.
We give politicians a pass by putting such labels on them or diagnosing them with a mental illness or personality disorder.

Perhaps Graham is worried about being outed on something. Trump is another case. He is a man who grew up with a sense of entitlement who is self-centered and cruel and lacks empathy. This is who he is and who he chooses to be and I don't see the point of clinically diagnosing him with any mental illness or personality disorder which would not be his fault. We don't blame a schizophrenic for hearing voices or somebody being treated for depression for trying to kill themselves.
But we need to carefully consider the use of the word "crazy" in regards to people we don't like or don't like what they do or say just as we would with using the word "retard".

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