Mental Health Information

I read your post in the IdaBriggs thread and that really helped me understand it as well.

This has been a huge and ongoing problem in the religion group. There are several members who take the position that religious people are delusional. It's very wrong when they use it in a clinical way, but it's also wrong when they use it in a colloquial way, imo.

Because the stigma is so ingrained, it is often difficult to get otherwise good people to understand why using terms connected with psychiatric illness in this way is wrong.

I finally got my kids to stop saying "retarded", but it took a lot of effort.