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    5 days ago

    It’s Greek for “suffering soul”. It just means mental illness, up until it was used as a slur for people with ASPD. Trying to redefine it as a “personality construct” - etymologically, the construct of having a sick head - is dangerous and irresponsible pseudoscience.