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Think about it the mental health profession changing away from the word will do practically nothing since they rarely mean any harm in using it yet those who with to do use it to intentionally harm those with the condition will continue to use it and the substitutes thus all you'd do it giving bullies a larger vocabulary of words to insult those with the condition.

Meanwhile those the mental health profession will have to print up whole new forms, databases, text books,ect costing labor value for very little benefit to society if any as in a decade or so they will be right back to where they started and there will be a movement to change the terminology again because too many people use the new terminology as a insult.

You have the problem the term is also used in engineering to mean deceleration, in music to resolve upward instead of downward, in many cases for its base meaning delay or impedance that is where the mental health meaning came from (which also included psychopathy in its broadest meaning).

I have yet to see any sign engineers, mathematicians, musicians and bakers will budge on continuing to using the word.

I was using it in its scientific form that is a generalized disorder, characterized by significantly impaired cognitive functioning. As I pointed out the film "The Corporation" made a similar comparison with capitalists just with a more specific type of the disability thus technically you can say all capitalists have the broader disability since they have the more specific disability. Or are we not allowed to talk about capitalism as a mental disorder, cause I bet you Marx would probably find that most amusing.

As for name changes has attempts to change the word communism helped or to distance the word socialism for the USSR? Or how about the word working class? If we want to get around negative imagery of words by changing their name we'd have to change a lot of words.

It is still scientific language it originated as a scientific term the pejorative meaning came later. Basically it is like wanting to change the word communism to something else because it developed a pejorative meaning. Changing names does not fix anything, ie a rose by any other name would be just as sweet.

It not my fault the moderators cause more trouble then they prevent.

I have you a negative rep for swearing at me, not for disagreeing with me.