The Power of Words

Recently I received a very nice e-mail containing the following sentence: »I see you suffer from schizoaffective disorder.« I found it a totally neutral expression. My husband, however, was bothered by the verb to suffer. He said it reminded him too intensively of suffering. I started to think about the power of words. Let me list the various possibilities we have to name a diagnosis in mental health field: 1.      I am a lunatic. ― Definitely the worst way of putting it. It’s a derogatory word. In addition to that we have a full identification: I = lunatic, which means I am nothing but...
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Balancing the Beast

Hi everyone, at the moment, I feel I need to take some rest. Why rest? Again? We are in the final phase of releasing the book. And according to the plan, this final phase will be 5 months long.  On top of I-do-not-know-how-many months. Why will this final phase take us 5 months? Because it is official now. The publication date is scheduled to be on the 4th of July 2011. That means the book will hopefully be ready before summer holidays. And the title of the book is: Balancing the Beast. The subtitle: A Bright View of Schizoaffective Disorder – Bipolar or Manic-Depressive Type. The book is now in the...
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