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USING PERSON-FIRST LANGUAGE WHEN REFERRING TO INDIVIDUALS WITH MENTAL HEALTH SYMPTOMS AND CONDITIONS Examples of Person First Language Say: Instead of: He/She has bipolar illness (or a diagnosis of...) He/She is bipolar He/She has schizophrenia (or a diagnosis of...) He/She is schizophrenic He/She has a mental health condition He/She has a mental illness He/She is emotionally disturbed/mentally ill He/She is mentally ill Person (singular) with a mental illness (singular); Persons/people/individuals (plural) with mental illnesses (plural) The mentally ill... OR People with mental illness (singular) General Rules By Which to Speak, Write, Respect and Empower To HAVE an illness, or to have the diagnosis of an illness, is notably different than to BE the illness. When I Ahave bipolar illness,@ I recognize that aspect of myself, much as I recognize that I Ahave brown eyes.@ When I Aam bipolar,@ I take on the identity of BEING bipolar. It becomes me, and I become it. Having vs. Being When we talk about an individual as separate from their mental health condition, we recognize the person first, and we acknowledge the person=s power to overcome that condition and live a full life separate from it. I often tell people, AI may have it, but it doesn=t have me!@ Mental illnesses are diverse; there are many of them, and many types of them. To say that Apeople@ (plural) have Amental illness@ (singular), misses the breadth and diversity of the nature of mental illnesses. Therefore, one person has one illness (Aperson with a mental illness@). More than one person has more than one illness (Apersons with mental illnesses@). Singular vs. Plural To use the singular (illness) when speaking in the plural (people/individuals/persons) reinforces stigma and discrimination. It implies that the there is only one mental illness, that it is Aone size fits all.@ [email protected] Rev. 7/25/11