Toward a new vocabulary for mental illness and addiction.
Please join us this Thursday April 26 at 7:00 pm for another community roundtable discussion with Josh Richardson.
The terms "mental illness" and "addiction" are already outdated in the mental health field, largely being replaced by ostensibly more neutral terms such as "mental disorder" and "substance use." Despite this, advocates claim that a more experience-centred approach is required, using language that is articulated and determined, in whole or in part, by experts-by-experience and peers (the "mentally ill" and "addicts"), rather than a vocabulary seemingly self imposed by a psychiatric superstructure.
And so, the question falls to the community: how do we speak about human psychological and emotional suffering in a way that does not alienate us from one another, causing further agony?
Everyone is welcome.
