Showing posts with label mental health stigma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mental health stigma. Show all posts

Thursday, 18 September 2014

Psychoses, Stigma, and Facebook.

[Site redacted: I don't want to provide views or ad revenue to the test. It was one of the Facebook quiz sites that seem to be popular with 12-16 year olds and the 40+]

This is probably the most disrespectful test I've seen on Facebook.

1. The term "Psycho" is incredibly pejorative and insensitive to anyone who has ever had symptoms of psychosis.

2. Schizophrenia, schizophreniform disorder, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, brief psychotic disorder, delusional disorder, chronic hallucinatory psychosis, schiotypal disorder, paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, PTSD, induced delusional disorder, OCD and certain dissociative disorders (I.e. DID) have all been linked, in some cases, to psychoses. That's more than 12.