Psyism: The specific oppression, discrimination, disrespect, and mistreatment against psychotic people, by nonpsys. A form of ableism and sanism directed towards people with psychotic disorders.
My friends and I were discussing the specific form of ableism and sanism targeted at psychotic people by nonpsys and realized that there's no word for that.
Ableism is an umbrella term for the oppression/discrimination/mistreatment of disabled and neurodivergent people. Underneath the umbrella of ableism, there are terms like audism (discrimination against d/Deaf/HOH people) and vidism (discrimination against blind/low vision people) and sanism (discrimination against people with mental illness) and so on.
I think we need a term of our own, so we came up with psyism. It uses "psy" from "psychosis," which is also used in the term "nonpsy" for nonpsychotics.
Why do we need this term? Often times, discrimination against psychotic people is being done by nonpsychotic people who themselves are otherwise mentally ill. When a person with depression uses "delusional" as an insult, it isn't okay because they're mentally ill. Disrespecting psychotic people isn't suddenly okay just because you yourself are mentally ill. It isn't just ableism, it's psyism.
