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More Psycho Grammar

arfie
arfie

Still feeling a drive to expand my comfort zone with the psycho____ words. When am I psychotic? More and more I believe that psychosis comes and goes like a virus. When I am going through a flashback, or hyper-vigilance, I am psychotic. I work my way through the psychosis using therapy tools and sometimes drugs. The psychosis eases slowly, like recovering from a flu bug.


Thoughts? Opines? Am I approaching understandable and unoffensive use of the word?

Community LeaderLeo
Leo
I think "Psycho" th efilm pretty much corrupted the word in popular usage, so that it has no clinical meaning left, and can be used to describe anything from a serial killer to an angry teenager... I try to use it in the clinical definition only, but even that changes. Which is no help, but it's all I've got.... Other than support as you ponder.
Community LeaderSunCloudJD
SunCloudJD
I think your description and effort to accept the word is really well written!... Well done sista!.... Big hug....xo
Doo
Doo
I think like Leo says, the word psycho has been corrupted because society thinks way differently than the word is intended. I still think psychosis happens upon brain changes somehow. No scientist here but hey, something for me to ponder too!
arfie
arfie
In my personal time-line, ridicule of "Psychics" trashed the word in mainstream culture long before Alfred Hitchcock stigmatized it further. Yet. . . Psychology, psychotherapy, etcetera, etceteri, just won't go away and nobody seems to be coming up with non-trashable replacements.

Sigh. . . Onward through the stigmata with my personal er-um-ah-ya-knows. . . At least "White Trash Whore" was concise and to the point, I reckon. Not so much the raised eyebrows over pursed lips in the "Polite Company."

Thanks, SC. May the circle of silence one day be broken.
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