Most of the people I know who are not happy with a psychiatric 
diagnosis understand their experience as a combination of 
personality, family, community, society.  Yet most advocacy is about 
a medical understanding and reinforces the very understanding people 
don't want.

Even the more current words, recovery (from illness), wellness 
(compared to illness), brain disease (<sigh>), stigma (about 
treatment), person-centered (treatment plan), voluntary (instead of 
forced treatment), consent (to medical procedures), ...

Where are the social words, what is the social frame, how do we talk 
about tolerance and inclusion and respect, and even more important, 
what does that look like when it is in place?

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