But it also depends on how much you associate "Crazy" with "Mental illness". Obviously a big part of my argument is that there's a strong association with the two, so associating anything else with crazy also associates it with mental illness. That's not the way it is for everyone.

I guess that is part of it for me -- when it's used in a way that seems totally divorced from mental illness it doesn't really register for me as being connected at all. And in many cases I tend to think it's not registering for other people either -- not that I'm saying "So therefore the word is fine."

But yeah, everyone has different experience and like I said I'm definitely not trying to say mine trumps anyone else's.