Design responsibly
Ákos Csertán
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A totally marginal issue, but it is a psychologycal responsibility not to use psychological terms in a misleading fashion – even if they are commonly used. schizophrenia is not when someone have two (sometimes ambigous) personalities and therefore act this way in one moment (get offended when considered someone who make things pretty), and that way in the next (underestimate the impact of design). If you say ‘schizophrenic phenomena’ it means someone has hallucinations or at least delusions and suffers from severe anxiety or depression.

Using the term SCH like this is one of the main sousces of causless fear from this illness or from ppl with this illness. Ppl tend to think SCH is what they have seen in dr jekyll and mr hyde or in primal fear – dangerous, unpredictable persons. Even if you really afraid from ppl with SCH, you can be sure they afraid from you more. Anyways, in most of the timethey are not dangerous (to others…) so one should not to be afraid of them…

plz dont reinforce a common misconception like this.