Words about mental health can stigmatize
談及精神健康 可能會讓人感到羞恥
Earlier this year, the "Journal of Abnormal Psychology" announced a change to its name because, as its editor in chief Angus MacDonald III wrote, "Names matter."The spectrum of diagnoses considered "abnormal" includes amnesias and depressions, sleep issues and hallucinations, and many, many more.
今年早些時候，《變態心理學期刊》宣布更名，其主編Angus MacDonald III也寫道：「名字至關重要。」人們認為以下診斷都可以被視為「不正常」，包括健忘症、抑鬱症、睡眠問題和幻覺，以及許多其他疾病。
《變態心理學期刊》
By referring to people with such a wide range of mental health conditions as "abnormal, " MacDonald wrote, "our title was contributing to stigma of people with mental illness."
MacDonald寫道，我們的刊名將患有各種精神疾病的人視作「不正常」，「這助長了社會對精神疾病患者的污名化。」
Victor Schwartz, a psychiatrist who helped organize the Media and Mental Health Initiative at Stanford University, said that "disparaging language can feel shame-inducing.It makes it harder for people to reach out for help or admit they are having mental health problems."
精神病學家Victor Schwartz曾在斯坦福大學幫忙組織「媒體與精神健康倡議」，他曾表示，「貶損的語言會讓人感覺羞恥。它會讓患者更難去求得幫助，或者承認自己患有精神疾病。」
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Stigmatizing language can become a stumbling block to treatment and support and increases the likelihood of these problems worsening before treatment is instituted.According to the American Psychiatric Association, more than half of people with mental illness don't get help for their disorders because they fear being treated differently.
污名化的語言會成為治療和支持的絆腳石，也會增加治療前病症變嚴重的可能性。根據美國精神病學協會的數據，一半多精神疾病患者沒有得到幫助，因為他們害怕遭受區別對待。
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Schwartz also explained how "using language around mental illness as a source of mockery is hurtful to those who experience mental illnesses."He points out that while no one sees humor in someone having a stroke or cancer, it's often allowable to ridicule those with a mental health condition.
Schwartz也解釋了「使用精神疾病相關的語言作為挖苦的素材，對那些精神疾病患者來說是傷人的。」他指出，沒人會對中風或患癌症的人開玩笑，但卻經常有人調侃那些患有精神疾病的人。
Another way that language can worsen stigma is to reduce a person to a diagnosis.Referring to someone as, "a schizophrenic, " instead of a person with schizophrenia, dehumanizes them."An illness is a part of their life and experience and does not define who they are, " says Eve Byrd, a psychiatric and mental health clinical nurse specialist.
語言會加重污名化的另一種表現，是直接將別人定義為患者。把某人稱為「瘋子」而不是「患有精神分裂症的人」剝奪了他們的人性。精神病學和精神健康臨床護理專家Eve Byrd表示：「疾病只是他們生活和經歷的一部分，並不能定義他們是誰。」
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