"When someone is repeatedly described as something, language has 
quietly paved the way for violent action."

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/what-if-we-occupied-language/

( to make the point explicit, for we who experience mood swings, 
fear, voices and visions, we are not our DSM codes, not our labels 
...  and it is this turning us into objects that has created the 
violence of forced psychiatry, making palatable that force can be 
renamed as treatment.   Sylvia)



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