Thread: Who Thinks The Language Of 'Mental' Illness Needs To Be Updated?
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Old Jul 23, 2020, 11:08 PM
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I work in the mental health system and when I was a peer support specialist we were made to call our participants “consumers....”

I despise that! So I called them my peers now I work as direct support at a staffed residence. I call them residents.
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