My boyfriend hates that some of my meds are called antipsychotics, whereas this doesn't bother me because it's a proper use of the word psychotic. Where he sees the word psychotic as more on the slang term. Haha I think he's backwards, but because I truly understand what psychotic means, it's a non threatening word to me. It does bother me if I hear one of my kids say "so and so is psycho" and do correct their language.

I'm a strong believer that words have power and our vocabulary can create change. I also get annoyed at people's lack of knowledge regarding MI. Since when does bipolar automatically equate to hostile, violent or aggressive ? I am non of these, people with bipolar or other MI's also have a personality behind them too, people forget that. Maybe these interactions with ill informed people are really just learning opportunities for them and me.