Price discusses that even though mental disability was broadly defined at the start of the survey to encompass individuals regardless of if they identified with the term disabled some participants took issue with questions that used the term mental disability and some participants noted that this usage of terminology impacted how they answered the questions.

In this study - in particular the initial survey portion- being a person with mental disability was defined as someone who has received mental health care and/or a mental health diagnosis. Participants did not have to identify as disabled to participate in the survey and participants were informed that they could otherwise identify with terms like mental-health services consumer, a psychiatric survivor, a person with mental illness, a psychocrip, or as someone with their particular diagnosis. 

Person with Mental Disability

Price, M. (2024). Crip Spacetime. Duke University Press.

Crip Spacetime

The term of psychiatric survivor comes from the c/s/x movement and is meant to position individuals as survivors of the psychiatric system and psychiatric industrial complex.

Psychiatric Survivor

The term psychiatric consumer originated at the 1985 Alternatives Conference and was chosen to represent individuals who receive care from mental health and psychiatric services. It was chosen in part because it was meant to signify that patients have, or ideally should have, a choice of services and treatment.

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