My Diagnosis is Not an Adjective!
“I am so depressed. I really wanted these boots but they don’t have them in my size!” “It was sunny this morning and now it’s stormy! This weather has been so schizophrenic.” “I was having a total panic attack last night. I thought I wasn’t going to make it home in time for The Walking Dead.” At some time or another, many of us are guilty of this: using words related to serious mental illnesses as colloquial terms to exaggerate a point. On the surface, this would appear to be