I've spent my careen working in psychiatry and so I go some firm beliefs along those lines.

Stigmatization in the US is extremely severe. And the us citizen in general I found extremely vulnerable to labels of crazy and insane. I consider it an extremely and profoundly rude and destructive thing to label and refer to people with mental disorders this way.

It is, at least for the hundreds of patients I've treated extremely tough on them to be stigmatized by the mental health community. Self-esteem just plummets. Treatment is different, people feel minimized, loose power. . . it is really bad.

It's so bad that in groups I used to lead, I'd recommend people not tell anyone they had a diagnosis. If they lost work being in the hospital they told the boss they were in the hospital, NOT that they were on psychiatry. It would absolutely ruin their career. I told them to tell no one, unless they had absolute confidence in the even handedness of them. That's how bad it is in the usofa.

I don't know about other countries. But in the US it is the absolute worst case to get a psychiatric diagnosis. You get almost no respect from anyone.

I cannot believe that anyone on this forum would use the label crazy or psychotic to label someone if they knew what absolute devastation it most probably would cause that person.

PS as a former professional in the field, with all due respect to others opinions, "crazy" as a label has absolutely no credibility as a description in psychiatry. Perhaps, to a layman, crazy means something, but as to accuracy of a descriptive it says nothing except to the person who uses it. It adds nothing except perhaps in the sense that giving a label to something makes us think we know something about it although we don't. Just my opinion, eh.