Originally posted by: OH_bete_ki
I am usually a silent reader but as a healthcare worker, I needed to comment on this. First of all, I am sure all @Shivashumbo meant was a harmless joke, referring to the movie Anniyan and the commonly used disorder BPD. I don't think she meant anything 'demeaning'. Second of all, what makes all these psychological disorders stigmatizing is the fact that people treat them like Voldemort - not to be talked about outside a shrink's office. there's nothing wrong about referring to them casually. In that case, one should not be able to use words such as crazy, maniac, psycho, depressed, etc either, but hey, they are pretty commonly used. Thirdly, your idea of BPD is completely wrong. You need to better understand the disorder. I personally think that most characters in Hindi soaps do have BPD myself. Lastly, take a joke as a joke. No need to find too much depth in everything.
Firstly, I have interacted with shivashambo here, and i understand that it was meant was nothing more than a joke.
Yes, you are right about mental illnesses being hushed up like voldemort but the alternative is having healthy discussions and compassion for those suffering. Every negative characteristics a person has cannot and should not be talked about as if the person has some mental illness. Mental illnesses are not character flaws. You are absolutely right. Words like crazy, maniac, psycho, depressed be used with caution. Just because they are commonly used doesn't make it right. I find myself using the word the 'crazy' a lot of times. Then I check myself. Ask myself: why did I use the word, what was I trying to say, what other words or expressions I could have used instead to mean what I wanted to say. Being a mental health care worker or health care worker doesn't make one infallible give anyone a free pass of having no stigma or no negative connotation regarding people with mental illness. It is a conscious decision and takes lots of effort
I am copy pasting DSM 5 diagnostic criteria of BPD. What I replied in previous comment is point 2 (bold red).There is a splitting of 'all good' and 'all bad' in people with BPD.
I didn't feel the need to give the entire clinical pathology because I didn't believe I came to prove my knowledge. The intention was to simply address how these harmless jokes can be harmful. It can stop people from seeking and receiving care they would need to function.
Again this was not a personal attack on the OP. I have interacted with them and i like interacting with them.
Borderline Personality Disorder Diagnostic Criteria 301.83 (F60.3) A pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:
1. Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment. (Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.)
2. A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternat-ing between extremes of idealization and devaluation.
3. Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self.
4. Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating). (Note: Do not include suicidal or self-mutilating behavior covered in Criterion 5.) 5. Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior.
6. Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days).
7. Chronic feelings of emptiness.
8. Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights).
9. Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms.
About taking jokes as just jokes, nothing exists in empty space.
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