Letter to the Dictionary

I have written this letter to your organization with concerns for the representation of Mental Specialties in your dictionaries and the affects it has on individuals who cope with the disease in its various forms.

I am requesting the immediate removal of Mental Illness from your books and that the term receive a medical definition. I am also requesting the term Mental Illness no longer be associated with or examples for the following word as words not mentioned in this letter. I ask that your company takes steps to support, advocate and publicly acknowledge how damaging and hurtful these definitions are.

There is a need for change and how we define and describe individuals with Mental health. Can we agree it starts with how we are defined?

Is it possible to see how your company has continued for centuries to push the Mental Illness madness narrative.

By definition the descriptions of Mental Specialties are defined by these appellations and their synonyms as illustrations and retorts when researching the term in any dictionary format.

Lunatic, sociopath, psychopath, maniac, mad-man, head case, schizo, basket case, loony, weirdo, cuckoo, fruitcake, wacko, crazy, mental, mad, insane, unhinged, certifiable, delirious, disturbed and non compos mentis and these are just a few descriptions.

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These definitions are far from the truth and not an accurate depiction of the people whom are in Program, homes and Mental Health facilities. Nor is it an accurate depiction of individuals living with families. These definitions subsequently are inaccurate and unreliable.

We are Fathers, husbands, wives, mothers and children that are loved by family and friends who deserve better with expectation to be better both from ourselves as well as others.

These publicized dictionaries subsequently give "mental illness" and the people whom cope with it daily the most deplorable and demoralizing definitions to be associated with any "disease" defined by man. We are basically monsters created by Frankenstein.

These definitions affect relationships and partnerships with the assuming or unassuming public.

It is my intention to give your company a firsthand account and experience from the perspective of the afflicted with hopes of changing the narrative, finding solutions and making the necessary changes in the way Mental Health is depicted through film, descriptions and media.

The depiction of what Mental Health is in medicine, science, religion, politics, news, dictionaries or propaganda will vary according to the conglomerate lobbying the narrative.

The representation of Mental Specialties through these syndicates has provided a global quintessential concept that delineates it's genus in a detrimental connotation.

The phenomenon of Mental Specialties has been associated with the most heinous atrocities by man and the visualization is a stereotypical generalization presented to a misinformed community resulting in a less than empathetic public instilled with fear, misunderstanding and saturated by stigmas.

If Mental Specialties is a disease with no cures and is a severe psychological trauma likely suffered as a child, such as an emotional, physical, or sexual abuse then why are we shunned by society and persecuted by the consensus of the mass population in dictionaries and descriptions?

I am asking that your companies take strong consideration and make this a priority. The Mental Health community deserves a hero moment and an opportunity to be viewed with compassion and understanding.

Be the example for the long and overdue changes that we need in our communities and definitions.