--- title: "Meaning & Key Takeaway of: Because now mental health disorders have…" description: "\"“Because now mental health disorders have gone “mainstream”. And for all the good it’s brought people like me who have been given therapy and stuff, th..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/165/holly-bourne-22170_every-single-day_because-now-mental-health-disorders-have_1021492.jpg" --- # Because now mental health disorders have gone… ![“Because now mental health disorders have gone “mainstream”. And for all the good it’s brought people like me who have been given therapy and stuff, there’s a lot of bad it’s brought too. Because now people use the phrase OCD to describe minor personality quirks. “Oooh, I like my pens in a line…” quote by Holly Bourne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/165/holly-bourne-22170_every-single-day_because-now-mental-health-disorders-have_1021492.jpg) [Download](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/165/holly-bourne-22170_every-single-day_because-now-mental-health-disorders-have_1021492.jpg) [Open image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/165/holly-bourne-22170_every-single-day_because-now-mental-health-disorders-have_1021492.jpg) > ““Because now mental health disorders have gone “mainstream”. And for all the good it’s brought people like me who have been given therapy and stuff, there’s a lot of bad it’s brought too. Because now people use the phrase OCD to describe minor personality quirks. “Oooh, I like my pens in a line, I’m so OCD.” NO YOU’RE FUCKING NOT. “Oh my God, I was so nervous about that presentation, I literally had a panic attack.” NO YOU FUCKING DIDN’T. “I’m so hormonal today. I just feel totally bipolar.” SHUT UP, YOU IGNORANT BUMFACE. Told you I got angry. These words – words like OCD and bipolar – are not words to use lightly. And yet now they’re everywhere. There are TV programmes that actually pun on them. People smile and use them, proud of themselves for learning them, like they should get a sticker or something. Not realizing that if those words are said to you by a medical health professional, as a diagnosis of something you’ll probably have for ever, they’re words you don’t appreciate being misused every single day by someone who likes to keep their house quite clean. People actually die of bipolar, you know? They jump in front of trains and tip down bottles of paracetamol and leave letters behind to their devastated families because their bullying brains just won’t let them be for five minutes and they can’t bear to live with that any more. People also die of cancer. You don’t hear people going around saying: “Oh my God, my headache is so, like, tumoury today.” Yet it’s apparently okay to make light of the language of people’s internal hell”” [Holly Bourne](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/holly-bourne/) ## About This Quote This interpretation was drafted with AI assistance. It is one reading of the quote, not the author's own explanation. The casual misuse of clinical terms trivializes serious conditions and fuels stigma. **In simple terms:** Misusing mental health words hurts real sufferers. Key Takeaway Respect language, avoid casual labels. 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