Adrian Brown wrote:
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Originally posted by Papercut Fun:
The best part about living in Canada and having a soccer (I know, I know, ""football"" but my mind doesn't work that way) team that's not very good means that the country breaks into several cultural pockets to celebrate their home countries during the world cup. This makes for a schizophrenic (sp?) nation where pockets of spontaneous elation and depression creep up all day every day depending on who wins each game.
You spelled schizophrenic correctly, but used it wrongly (as most people do). It doesn't really mean split personality in the sense you think. A more correct metaphor would have been ""multiple-personality"" (or, for Italians, ""agitated depression"".
Further notes on misused psychiatric terminology, ""manic-depressive"" does not mean ""very deeply depressed"" although people with that condition can be so. It's more about mood swings, sometimes very high (manic) to very low (depressed), but not always.
And don't get me started on ""alcoholic""."
