[WikiEN-l] Re: "Mental Health Service Consumer" Trolls

Wed Oct 15 19:23:15 UTC 2003

Toby Bartels wrote:

>Alex756 wrote:
>
>>This organization is a good place to start understanding
>>what "mental health service consumers" or just "mental
>>health consumers" (the terms used by most individuals
>>who are or should be under some kind of treatment)
>>have to deal with on a daily basis:
>>http://www.nami.org/template.cfm?section=Living_With
>>
>
>That's the term that's used by most of us now?
>I had no idea that the consumerification of society
>had proceeded to such a degree!
>
>Since I use psychiatric counseling and prescriptions for medication,
>technically I must agree that I am a "mental health service consumer".
>I don't see how I could be a "mental health consumer", however.
>
The terms that we use can easily have unwanted implications.  "Mental 
health service consumer" seems clear enough.  Stress could be seen as a 
"mental health consumer." ;-)

Ray