Shadow, I think that like most people who've never suffered from vertigo, you're confusing it with acrophobia. Having had vertigo (fortunately not recurring) it's a mistake I'll never make again.

Vertigo is prolonged dizziness caused by an inner ear malfunction.

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NathanJ, quit your whinging! As something that affects perception, I think its use in an arts context is entirely appropriate.

'Tis hardly new anyway. It has long been used as a record label, and of course there was the Hitchcock film.

Aidan,

"NathanJ, quit your whinging! As something that affects perception, I think its use in an arts context is entirely appropriate."

I could then argue a whole range of other things are appropriate and that we could or should use and commercialise these.

I could include Breast Cancer, sexual abuse, Heart Disease, murder or terrorism - but does that make it right or ethical to make money from any of these elements - particularly at the expense of those affected?

The author I referred to, I'm not getting any percentage payments from her book titled 'Vertigo'. Finally, are people who are currently speaking out in regards to sexual abuse simply whinging? I'll let you be the judge.

Wake up, NathanJ! Murder is far more commercialized than vertigo is! There are thousands of books and films about murder, many of which have Murder in the title.

Victims of sexual abuse and other crimes have a valid complaint when it's difficult to get justice, particularly when there are coverups and failure to take the issue seriously.

But you don't have a valid complaint. And nor do you have an intellectual property right to the name of any medical condition that affects you.

Aidan,

Any reference to an old record that was played or a comic book that may have had a Vertigo title or connection, I don't care about. That's old news, but in terms of....

"Victims of sexual abuse and other crimes have a valid complaint when it's difficult to get justice, particularly when there are coverups and failure to take the issue seriously."

There are no 'valid complaints', or we can become selective. I cannot get justice or any resolution for five medical conditions I have. Last week I was suffering from from extreme drowsiness for example due to emergency medication I had to take (Vertigo related). I was asleep all day.

Simply referring to coverups and failing to take an issue seriously doesn't stack up, in terms of an argument, in the context, there needs to be more respect for all, and not exploitation of the disadvantaged or people using disadvantage to their own advantage.

Some have sold books or undertaken television interviews (for payment), after say a terrorist attack, and made money from that, thinking this will lead to a life of solutions, with other thoughtful, reflective options put last.

Commercialism could or should be out of the picture - but it is entrenched in too many people's lives and of course.... that of big business.

I have had a run-in with Meniere's, a disorder of the inner ear that is characterised by extreme vertigo and extreme tinnitus. This is not just ordinary vertigo and tinnitus. You know an attack is coming on when a jet plane starts flying through your head. The best description I've read of the vertigo: image the worst you've ever been drunk, simultaneous with the worst you've ever been sea-sick, while someone is hitting you round the head with a two-by-four.

However I do not think this gives me, or anyone else, ownership or copyright of the word 'vertigo'. Preventing use of the word is not going to help with the problem, but maybe just push it under the table. In fact I'd like to see more books, stories, tales, personal experiences - even humorous ones, so people know what it's like.

Menieres is not curable. It's just a matter of management, primarily by maintaining a low salt diet, but you are always aware that it can come back and bite you at any time

NathanJ,
Try not to dwell, worry or get upset by things you cannot change.
You'll just make things worse for yourself emotionally.
I know you've been a dealt a crappy hand, I know life can be unfair and sometimes its no-ones fault.