Labelling patients suffering from mental health issues is stigmatizing and may worsen the degree of seriousness of the disorder de to increased stress and possible depression due to isolation (Fox et al., 2021). Awareness of how the language used in conversations and interaction with mental health patients affect their mood and recovery process helps in reducing the possibility of a negative outcome. You either have a mental health issue or you don’t and are in good health. Labelling should be avoided as it creates a false impression as to what is normal r abnormal in the society. The move makes it challenging for the diagnosis and treatment of mental and psychological issues as all are classified as unique and easily curable eve in situations where they are not.
Depending on how you phrase a statement to refer to individuals suffering from mental health disorders, one may come off as rude and stigmatizing or knowledgeable and caring. Grabmeier (2016), advices that the best approach to referring to such patients is by starting with referring to the person first then including the situation one is in. comparing between two approaches to the use of language in healthcare situation, he argues that it is better to say “people with a mental illness” rather than “the mentally ill”. The former shows that the individuals are not defined by their health condition while using the latter defines an individual wholly by their health situation.
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