Thought for the day – Why don’t you find out my real name?

How do some words come about?  Example, nutcase?  Is it that you don’t know my name?  Or perhaps, it sounds funny?

No!  No! No!

Cambridge dictionary describes nutcase as  someone who behaves in an extremely silly way or an offensive term for someone who is mentally ill.

A lot of times in reality, people do not mean to be ‘offensive’ when using some of these words.  But the fact is that on the receiving end, it can either:

1. Be offensive in reality

2.  Be a misuse of a medical condition.  

3.  Is negative, either way!

It is not about being overtly sensitive too.  Words are important. In the Bible for example, Adam was assigned the task to give names to everything in creation.  And back then before his fall, there was nothing ugly, so there could not have been any ugly terms, right? 

What we call ourselves or what we call others is important.  Lets remember this.

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About The Author

Zoe

Zoe met Eze (Chuck) in the 14th year of what turned out to be an 18 year ‘journey’ with mental illness. They got married less than a year of meeting with Zoe fully knowing Chuck had a diagnosis of mental illness. In the 18th year, Chuck defied the odds of mental illness. A consultant psychiatrist signed him off the mental health system with a bill of NO MENTAL ILLNESS. The consultant was so amazed by Chuck’s astonishing recovery that he even questioned how Chuck was diagnosed with mental illness all those years before, in the first place! Today Chuck is free from medication, its dependency and hospitalizations. Zoe’s award nominated book, DEFYING THE ODDS, chronicles the highs and ‘lows’ of this journey. Zoe, often writing from the standpoint of a caregiver, clearly understands that mental illness does not only affect an individual challenged with the disease, but also families, marriages and society as a whole.

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