mental illness shaming

[libodem]

19. We called it Organic Brain Syndrome

When I worked at State Hospital South back in the seventies.

To be honest the whole word policing effort to spare people's personal offence around here makes me tired.

Crazy will be this year's 'retarded'. I would never call any one with developmental delay retarded. Or ever call anyone with a major mental illness crazy. I would only ever actually insult a regular person with those terms.

I don't even use those terms. I don't call people names. But it's still how I feel.

I have a diagnosis of depression. So I do get it.