People using terminology referencing abuse on this website with no trigger warnings (which I thought was a bit of a safe place) hurts me so much. I feel stupid and weak for not being able to handle what others should be able to handle (and there is one person in particular that I am annoyed with, but I am not comfortable with revealing their name).
I feel less of a want to use this website because of the fear of pain and frustration I feel towards myself (and maybe towards the people that use such terms, but I am not sure how much of the blame should really be put on them).
Hmm… As someone into psychology I don’t like people’s use of psychopath and sociopath and narcissist to describe selfish people who commit heinous acts. It pathologizes what we know is a product of capitalist environment, something real people with ASPD and NPD rarely benefit from. It’s a matter of peoplle speaking on things they haven’t investigated. I have similar hangups with the use of “pedophile” to describe CSA perpetrator despite the two groups rather rarely overlapping.
Oh yeah I was gonna make a post about this. I hate pop-psychology so so so so SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much. There’s nothing I could say that would allow you to FATHOM how much I despise it.
You’re the one who was in fandom spaces and bore witness to proship-anti wars. Pop-psych is absolutely rampant there.
narcissism and NPD aren’t the same and i don’t think most people are armchair clinically diagnosing people when they say the former.
Yeah the way I see it is that, this time, the medical jargon is filling a real hole in the English language. What I mean is: how do you turn “selfish” into a noun? And I don’t mean “selfishness” I mean a noun that describes a person. Are we supposed to be calling people “selfists”? Selfers? Selfians?
You could say “selfish person” but that’s a mouthful and doesn’t sound the same as using a proper word.
All synonyms have the same problem except for the ones that are also jargon.
We’ve gotta rename npd then.
Yeah, people can be prone to overusing specific scientific terminology in incorrect contexts (especially for political terminology).