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Schizophrenic, autistic, bipolar… These psychological terms are used to insult each other and stigmatize patients.

“Just like we don’t talk anymore dirty black Or dirty homosexualI wish we didn’t say anything else dirty autistic Or dirty schizophrenic ! Hugo Baup’s blood boiled over the weekend of February 25 when he heard National Rally President Jordan Bardella repeatedly call Emmanuel Macron a “schizophrenic.” According to this psychiatrist at the Périgueux hospital center, politicians should “stop using mental illness as an insult,” to use the title of a petition he launched online at the same time. In five days, his text received a thousand signatures.

“Schizophrenic”, but also “mentally ill”, “bipolar”, “autistic”… The list of uses of this genre is long, and there are many examples. “I’m not autistic,” then-presidential candidate François Fillon said in a prime-time show on France 2 in March 2017. He meant that he was not limited in his views. “You have to be mentally ill to do this,” Jacques Attali had argued three years earlier, speaking of Patrick Buisson, a former adviser to Nicolas Sarkozy, whom he signed up without his knowledge.

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Source: Le Parisien

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