Don’t call individuals Schizophrenics
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5 min readAug 28, 2023
Why do we define people with mental illness by their diagnosis? That is not who they are. They have schizophrenia — they are not schizophrenics.
Individuals with mental illness have a brain disease just like someone with dementia, Alzheimer’s, epilepsy, or Parkinson's. Still, stories in the media, movies, and other outlets describe people as schizophrenic. We need to stand up to this…
