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Sluggish Psychiatry

A term for the widespread online practice of casually imputing mental illnesses to others—especially religious, spiritual, or metaphysical believers—as a way to dismiss, humiliate, or pathologize them. Terms like “delusional,” “schizophrenic,” “narcissistic,” “needs therapy,” or “needs a psychiatrist” are thrown around as generic insults, often by people with no clinical training. Sluggish psychiatry treats mental health diagnoses as cheap ammunition, ignoring the real suffering of people with mental illnesses while using clinical language to silence and demean those with different worldviews.
Example: “When she mentioned she practiced meditation, he immediately said she was ‘delusional and needs a psychiatrist.’ Sluggish psychiatry: weaponizing mental health labels to dismiss spiritual practices.”
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Sluggish Psychiatry

The widespread online practice of casually diagnosing others with mental disorders—especially dissidents, anti-capitalists, religious believers, and spiritual people—as a way to dismiss, pathologize, and silence them. Terms like "schizophrenic," "delusional," "narcissistic," "needs therapy," or "needs a psychiatrist" are thrown around by people with no clinical training, often in the same breath as "conspiracy theorist" or "pseudoscience." Sluggish psychiatry uses the authority of mental health to label any worldview outside the speaker's own as sick, effectively transforming psychiatric language into a weapon of ideological enforcement. It trivializes real mental illness while bullying those with different beliefs.
Example: "When he questioned corporate media narratives, dozens of replies called him 'delusional' and 'in need of a psychiatrist.' Sluggish psychiatry: pathologizing dissent instead of engaging with it."

Stink lines

As seen in illustrations or cartoons: Wavy, vertical lines rising above a person, place or thing. Denotes a foul odor.
"You didn't put enough stink lines on your picture of the teacher."
Stink lines by Athene Airheart March 14, 2004

schmegegge 

Yiddish slang word meaning bullshit, baloney, hogwash, nonsense, crock of shit or hot air.
I don't buy the schmegegge about Morty sleeping with Moira.
His version of the story was pure schmegegge.
The whole schmegegge was made up to get Liz a little bit of attention.
schmegegge by budsbabe February 1, 2008

eye bleach 

Looking or experiencing something nice after witnessing something horrid like a disgusting gif or a disturbing video. Typically used as eye bleach are nice images of whatever makes the disturbed person happy.
"Bleach my eyes! Why is that woman's face ripped off!?"
*Looks up images of puppies and kittens.*
"That's good eye bleach."
eye bleach by Rini2012 November 29, 2016
Noun. Portmanteau of "street" and "road": it describes a street, er, road, built for high speed, but with multiple access points. Excessive width is a common feature. A common feature in suburbia, especially along commercial strips. Unsafe at any speed, their extreme width and straightness paradoxically induces speeding. Somewhat more neutral than synonymous traffic sewer.
Did you see what the traffic engineers want to do to our street? They're going to turn it into a total stroad!
Stroad by hammersklavier February 21, 2012

giantess 

she will either play with you crush you use you a slave or eat you
giantess by Tonyt September 8, 2004