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Table 3 Terms used by 14 year old school students to refer to mental illness

From: 250 labels used to stigmatise people with mental illness

Abnormal

Frustration

Not fair

Sometimes lacking brain power

Abusive

Fucked

Not happy

Spakka

Alone

Funny

Not obvious

Spanner

Alzheimers

Gay

Not quite there

Spastic

Angry

Get lost

Not the sharpest knife in the drawer

Spaz

Anti-social

Gone in the head

Numscull

Split personality

Asylums

Goon

Nutcase

Spoone

Attention seekers

Green room

Nutter

Stiggy nutter

Autism

Halfwit

Nuts

Stigma

Bewildered

Hallucinating

Nutty as a fruitcake

Strait jackets

Bimbo

Hallucinations

OCD

Strange

Bonkers

Hand fed

Odd

Stress

Brain damage

Handicapped

Oddball

Stressed

Brain dead

Happy club

Off their rocker

Therapist

Breakdown

Hard

Out of it

Therapy

Childish

Hard work

Outcast

Thick

Cola sweat

Head banging

Padded cells

Thicko

Confused

Head case

Paedophile

Thicky

Crackers

Helpless

Panicked

Tiring

Crazy

Hurting yourself

Paranoid

Too much pressure

Cushioned walks

Idiot

Patch Adams

Touchy to talk to

Dangerous

Ill

People who are obsessed

Troubled

Deformed

Indecisive

Perfectly normal

Twisted

Demanding

Infixed in bad habits

Perverted

Twister

Demented

Insane

Physical problems

Ugly

Depressed

Insecure

Physically ill

Unable to make decisions

Depression

Intellectually challenged

Pills

Unappreciated

Deranged

Intimidating

Pinflump

Unapproachable

Difficulty learning

Irrational

Pive

Uncomfortable

Dildo

Isolated

Plank

Under pressure

Dinlo

Joe from Eastenders

Ponce

Understandable

Disabled

Jumpy

Pressure

Unfair

Disarmed

Learning difficulties

Pressurising families

Unfortunate

Disorientated

Lonely

Problems

Unhappy

Distorted

Loony

Psychiatric

Unpredictable

Distressed

Loony bin

Psychiatric health

Unstable

Distressing

Loser

Psychiatrist

Upsetting

Disturbed

Lost

Psycho

Veg

Disturbing

Lunatic

Psychopath

Vegetable

Disturbing images

Mad

Reject

Victim

Div

Made fun of

Retard

Victimised

Dizzy

Madness

Sad

Violence

Doctors

Manic depression

Sandwich/pepperoni short of a picnic

Violent

Dofuss

Mass murderers

Scared

Voices

Dopy

M.E.

Scared to talk to if they were a murderer or rapist

Voices in your head

Downy

Mental

Scary

Vulnerable

Dribbling

Mental hospital

Schizo

Wacky

Drugged-up

Mental illness

Schizophrenia

Wally

Dulally

Mental institution

Schizophrenic

War

Dumb

Mentally challenged

School can cause it

Wheelchair jockey

Embarrassed

Mentally handicapped

School pressure

Weird

Embarrassing

Mentally ill

Screw loose

Weirdo

Empty

Misunderstood

Screwed

Wheel chairs

Escaped from an asylum

Mong

Sees things in a different way

White coats

Excluded

More common than you think

Segregation

Wild

Feel sorry

Muppets

Self-harm

Wild funny noises

Few sandwiches short of a picnic basket

Needing help

Shock syndrome

Window licker

Flid

Nervous

Shouts

Withdrawn

Flip in the head

Nightmares

Sick in the head

World of their own

Freak

Non-caring

Simple

Worried

Fruit cake

None caring

Simpleton

You belong in a home

Frustrated

No-one upstairs

Some people born mentally ill

 

Frustrating

Not all there

Sometimes includes drugs

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