Here We Go Again
An article in the Health section of Yahoo provides another chapter in the battle to prevent anyone from being offended. The article titled, “Experts Want To Rename Schizophrenia” says the term schizophrenia has no scientific validity and is imprecise and stigmatizing. That “symptoms such as delusions, hearing voices and hallucinations are not the results of the illness but may be reactions to traumatic and troubling events in life.” We must not offend anyone by labeling them with a name that has been prevalent since psychiatry started. Since we have discovered new and different diseases and methods of treatment, we can no longer lump people that suffer from the general schizophrenic symptoms into one group. I guess that will allow the doctors that treat this specific mental illness to specialize even further.
I would like to take this absurdity one step further. Since there is a stigma about having cancer, I want the disease renamed. Since the symptoms may differ with each type of cancer, such as hearing voices with a brain tumor, losing a lung with pulmonary cancer or a few feet of intestines with colon cancer. Each of these is different and should have a new and less offensive title as to not stigmatize those that suffer the ailment. How about cranial ventriloqual condition? Or abdominal innard reductus condition. We can’t call it a syndrome as that also holds a stigma. Let’s stamp out the name cancer from people so they do not have to suffer the indignity of being labeled as a cancer sufferer or survivor.
Or maybe we should look at eliminating anything that implies that you are something other than a citizen. All labels should be removed as to not stigmatize someone by calling them a barber or policeman or doctor. Those labels imply that someone has more education or higher status in the pecking order or more authority than someone else. By calling everyone citizen, we negate anyone from being embarrassed by the career path they have chosen. It also sounds a lot like Karl Marx and his lost cause of creating a utopia of everyone being equal. Sorry, human nature is based on competition not stagnation. So Citizen, lets all hold hands and think of different, less offensive ways to describe the multiple symptoms that are currently called schizophrenia.
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Cobb
I would like to take this absurdity one step further. Since there is a stigma about having cancer, I want the disease renamed. Since the symptoms may differ with each type of cancer, such as hearing voices with a brain tumor, losing a lung with pulmonary cancer or a few feet of intestines with colon cancer. Each of these is different and should have a new and less offensive title as to not stigmatize those that suffer the ailment. How about cranial ventriloqual condition? Or abdominal innard reductus condition. We can’t call it a syndrome as that also holds a stigma. Let’s stamp out the name cancer from people so they do not have to suffer the indignity of being labeled as a cancer sufferer or survivor.
Or maybe we should look at eliminating anything that implies that you are something other than a citizen. All labels should be removed as to not stigmatize someone by calling them a barber or policeman or doctor. Those labels imply that someone has more education or higher status in the pecking order or more authority than someone else. By calling everyone citizen, we negate anyone from being embarrassed by the career path they have chosen. It also sounds a lot like Karl Marx and his lost cause of creating a utopia of everyone being equal. Sorry, human nature is based on competition not stagnation. So Citizen, lets all hold hands and think of different, less offensive ways to describe the multiple symptoms that are currently called schizophrenia.
Icool
Cobb
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