A modern, passive-aggressive insult derived from mental health discourse, used to dismiss, invalidate, or pathologize someone's emotions, opinions, or online behavior. The phrase "Take your meds" or its variants ("Did you skip your meds?", "Someone's off their lithium") weaponizes psychiatric treatment as a rhetorical cudgel. It implies the target is inherently irrational, unstable, or delusional, and that their legitimate passion, criticism, or unconventional perspective is merely a symptom of non-compliance with medication. This slur reinforces mental health stigma by framing medication as a tool for social compliance and silencing, rather than a personal medical choice.
Example: In a heated political debate on Twitter, User A presents a well-sourced but emotionally charged critique of a policy. Unable to counter the arguments, User B replies, "Lmao, the conspiracy theories are flying today. Take your meds, schizo." The slur doesn't engage the content; it attempts to medically discredit the speaker, associating their intensity with mental illness and suggesting they'd be silent if properly medicated. It's a way of winning an argument by falsely diagnosing your opponent as crazy. Medicine Slurs.
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Get the Medicine Slurs mug.Derogatory terms that use psychotic experiences as metaphors for nonsense, chaos, or unreliability. These slurs (e.g., "That idea is psychotic," "What a schizo take," "He's delusional") casually equate severe mental distress with being wrong, stupid, or untrustworthy. They stigmatize clinical conditions by making them synonyms for intellectual or moral failure. In discourse, they are used to pathologize an opponent's position, shutting down debate by implying their very cognition is diseased and thus their arguments are not just incorrect, but symptomatic.
Example: During a complex debate on economic theory, one participant presents a heterodox model. A critic, instead of engaging the math, tweets: "This schizoid economics is just word salad. The author is clearly off his meds." The slurs "schizoid" and "off his meds" transplant the discussion from the realm of ideas to the realm of pathology. They don't argue; they diagnose, rendering the theory and its proponent inherently illegitimate. Psychosis Slurs.
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