[bsdshepherd]

> psychotic

Choose - mental illness is either real or it isn't.

Seek help.

[lutusp]

>> psychotic

> Choose - mental illness is either real or it isn't.

Calling someone psychotic doesn't grant the reality either of the term's generally accepted meaning or mental illness as a category. Any more than the common use of the term "genius" is reducible to scientific consensus on the meaning of that term.

[DanBC]

So you're happy to use mental illnes to stigmatise and discriminate against people, but you dismiss it as nonsense when people seek treatment?

Another example of you using mental health diagnosis in a stigmatisig way: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8250828#up_8251567