Just a short rant ....There is a gas station chain here that is doing a "Manic Monday" sale each week on their coffee. Every time I go into one of these gas stations, I roll my eyes at the signs. "Manic Monday" sales really piss me off.
I understand the concept... you've spent the entire weekend relaxing and now you have to go back to work and your errands and sometimes Mondays can make you feel crazy.
I just feel like it cheapens real mania. It's disrespectful to bipolar people. Maybe I'm the only person who feels this way, but yeah, it pisses me off.
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In the UK we had a phone kiosk campaign by the national telecomms provider (BT) that went along the lines of `you`d have to be mad to use another company` (accompanied by an illustration of a mad person saying `wibble,wibble`. I really wanted to go to work with a spray can wherever I saw it!
You're not the only person that feels this way. This and people using the term bipolar for non-mental illness things is so aggravating. Another form of ignorance.
Before I was diagnosed with a mental illness, I have to admit I was guilty of more than once using the terms you mentioned and one of your commenters mentioned in a way I should not have. My only excuse is ignorance.
Now that I have been diagnosed with a mental illness I realize the error of my ways. I have become very aware of words, and how words can affect our thinking and other people's thinking.
I think most of the time when people use those terms in the wrong way they are doing so out of ignorance. However, I believe that just using those words in such an offhanded way, lessens how seriously people take those words in other contexts. It makes it easier for them to see some forms of mental illness as no big deal, when it is all very serious.
sorry for the long comment
In a similar way, there can be offense taken at the phrases: "Gosh, you almost gave me a heart attack!" (My husband had several and eventually died of a failed heart transplant.) Or: "It's not brain surgery!" (My son had brain surgery with part of tumor inoperable.) Now he has very little vision left. But, while I can understand, I think you have to take these things with a grain of salt. I will however, admit to being deeply saddened when - after my husband passed away, people would comment, "What's wrong? You look like you lost your best friend." And as a matter of fact, I had. Bottom line: Your feelings are your feelings and you have every right to them. Peace.
The one thing that I hate hearing is when someone calls someone that has done something wrong psychotic. It always makes me feel bad because I have been psychotic and it's damn scary. I agree with you for the manic monday thing and they probably even don't realise they have done it.
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