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Re:NHS develops online psychological therapy for Bipolar Dis... by lutusp on Thursday September 11, 2014 @08:29PM (#8306017)
>> psychotic

> Choose - mental illness is either real or it isn't.

Calling someone psychotic doesn't grant the reality either of the term's generally accepted meaning or mental illness as a category. Any more than the common use of the term "genius" is reducible to scientific consensus on the meaning of that term.

Re:NHS develops online psychological therapy for Bipolar Dis... by DanBC on Friday September 12, 2014 @06:37AM (#8307375)
So you're happy to use mental illnes to stigmatise and discriminate against people, but you dismiss it as nonsense when people seek treatment?

Another example of you using mental health diagnosis in a stigmatisig way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8250828#up_8251567