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Letter: Term time

Published 30 September 2000

From Annette Anderson

Tracy’s concern about what we should call someone with schizophrenia ought to be unfounded
(16 September, p 55).
People with schizophrenia are schizophrenic
people just as I, as a person with diabetes, am a diabetic person.

Isn’t it about time we stopped being so concerned about what politically
correct label we give to someone, and more concerned with helping them to deal
with whatever it is that has created that label for them?

Banbury, Oxfordshire

Issue no. 2258 published 30 September 2000

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