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Table 2 Super-ordinate categories emerging from the terms used

From: 250 labels used to stigmatise people with mental illness

Theme

1 Popular derogatory terms

2 Negative Emotional State

3 Physical Illness or Learning Disability

4 Psychiatric categories

5 Violence

6 Loneliness

Number of instances

114

61

38

15

9

10

Examples

Nuts

Disturbed

Disabled

Schizophrenia

Scary

Isolated

 

Psycho

Confused

Spastic

Depression

Violence

Loneliness

 

Crazy

Depression

Dumb

Psychiatric

  
 

Loony

Ill

Demented

   
 

Weird

Stress

Wheelchairs

   
 

Freak

Distressed

    
 

Screw Loose

Embarrassed

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