people really love using psychotic disorders as a joke or trope or plot point in fiction, but even other mentally ill people are just fine with stigmatising psychosis. i’ve heard so many stories of psychotic ppl being in psych wards and fellow patients have said "at least i’m not crazy" or "before coming here, i thought all ppl in a psych ward would be weird and insane". of course, they inevitably slip up and say it to someone who they don’t realise has psychosis. when ppl watch tv and laugh at the "crazy", "nonsensical", "strange" character… what they never seem to think about is that someone else in the room might be psychotic and too afraid and upset to speak up. and then there’s all the times where you call someone you don’t like "delusional" or "psychotic" because to *you* it means stupid and evil. to psychotic people it means that their loved ones are scared of them or hate them.
just think before you speak. and no, you probably wouldn’t know whether or not someone has experienced psychosis. so don’t assume.
