Entry on mental illness is added to AP Stylebook  May 7, 2013

“It is the right time to address how journalists handle questions of mental illness in coverage,” said AP Senior Vice President and Executive Editor Kathleen Carroll. “This isn’t only a question of which words one uses to describe a person’s illness. There are important journalistic questions, too... 

Do not use derogatory terms, such as insane, crazy/crazed, nuts or deranged, unless they are part of a quotation that is essential to the story....

 Avoid descriptions that connote pity, such as afflicted with, suffers from or victim of. Rather, he has obsessive-compulsive disorder....

Avoid using mental health terms to describe non-health issues. Don’t say that an awards show, for example, was schizophrenic. 
   
 Use the term mental or psychiatric hospital, not asylum. 

 http://www.ap.org/content/press-release/2013/entry-on-mental-illness-is-added-to-ap-stylebook