2022 Breaking the cycle of stigma in academic writing hroughout the last two decades, there has T n been a societal shift towards more person- n centred language and terms of expression e that seek to avoid offending, marginalising i h and stigmatising particular groups of people. Yet, k as part of my academic role, I frequently read p articles in academic journals, which use r stigmatising language. e a t P I hope the alternative words and phrases suggested here may be one step towards breaking S the cycle of stigma in academic writing.