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Old Jul 19, 2020, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by seesaw View Post
Couldnt agree more. I'm studying to become a patient advocate and I am now encouraging others to refer to mental illness as psychiatric disorders. Although I would even prefer we go so far as to realign these all as neuro-psychiatric or neurological disorders, considering what we are learning about how the brain is changed. It's not just chosen behaviors or learned behaviors
And I dont like mental health disorder because still using the word mental, to me, stigmatizes that it's not real.
Thank you, seesaw. i never understood how someone could choose to become psychotic...
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