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They also do that so that they won't violate privacy laws by using names.
B-r-r-r-r-t! Wrong, but thank you for playing! (As an homage to Robin Williams' performance in Dead Poets Society.)
The issue predates the privacy laws by several decades!
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Originally Posted by stan4
No one says I'm schizophrenia. And bipolar is an adjective.
If they say anything they say "I'm schizophrenic." I have known four people who said "I'm bipolar." (One of them definitely was; two 'maybe'; one definitely not.)
If I had to guess, it might be a way of people expressing the quandary of "where does the personality begin and the condition end?" I would wager most adults have had contact with friends/family/co-workers where that has been seriously considered.
No, I'm not talking about the PC part; that's why I mentioned that to distinguish what I'm complaining about. What I'm saying is people are saying "I am OCD" which is like saying "I am hypoglycemia" or "I am diabetes" or "I am bulimia." Yes a person is HIV positive, but the person HAS HIV. Bulimic, hypoglycemic, HIV+, and diabetic are adjectives, so yes, some can say they "are" those.
I guess some words don't really translate into adjectives so well. There is bulimic and bulimia. Hypoglycemic and hypoglycemia. But for the "lettered diseases" and abbreviations, it just doesn't roll off the tongue that way. "I'm OCDic" or I'm "ADHDic" just ain't working. "OCDish" could work, but only if you have just a little of something.
I could even understand if they would say "I'm O-C" meaning "I'm obsessive-compulsive."
In a few more years maybe they will be. Everything is getting shortened daily.
Except OC is already slang for Oxytocin...
It's fascinating how language is always changing to reflect society. This makes English language studies more of a social science at times.
I was recently explaining what the word supper *really* means to a friend. I do this a lot handing down my wisdom of "real" definitions that me grandmother taught me. This was the first time I stopped myself and changed my lesson to "what it used to mean."
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Yes, taking a few minutes to post about a trivial issue online is such a huge overreaction.
Please, it's not like I'm yelling and screaming and stomping my feet. If a little written venting and discussion with an "Ugh" tossed in here and there is an "overreaction," then I don't know what to tell you.
My point was, there are times when I can't separate myself from the "disorder" it feels like IT IS me; not something I suffer from. If you sit in the dark alone enough nights, or become afraid of your own thoughts You feel it. The rest is a mute point; however you put it. It's really not a grammer issue; it is a mental issue.
My point was, there are times when I can't separate myself from the "disorder" it feels like IT IS me; not something I suffer from. If you sit in the dark alone enough nights, or become afraid of your own thoughts You feel it. The rest is a moot point; however you put it. It's really not a grammer issue; it is a mental issue.
I understand what you are trying to say here--no need to whack yourself in the head, you'll just make things worse. Your perception doesn't apply to everyone, however. And if you want to talk about your mental illness and the difficulties it causes you, there is a Mental Health forum on City-Data. Mental illness is not the topic of this thread.
I HAVE OCD, and even though YES, it feels as if it is very much a part of me, I would never insist on saying I AM OCD. And that's probably because I do have OCD and already have a problem with the way people murder the language and seem to just not care. So, instead I try to remember to fix the errors and misuses, when possible, instead of pointing them out.
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