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Many in our mental health community believe that you can't really be doing well and have schizophrenia.

Studies from Japan's name change demonstrate that name change leads to a sharp increase in being diagnosed.

Renaming is only one step. What is more essential is reconceptualization.

Coming to terms with a stigmatized diagnosis Source: Moopingz / Adobe Stock

A great deal of semantics can go into a name, especially schizophrenia. The name “schizophrenia” finds its origins from the term, “ dementia praecox,” which originally referred to an “incurable, progressive disease” (Guloksuz & van Os, 2019). The word itself is highly stigmatized, linked to notions of “dangerousness; incurability and unpredictability” (Sartorius, et. al, 2014). This means that often even medical an

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