"We just don't want to see the term misused any longer".
The company has begun sending letters to news organizations whenever it sees the term misused.
Long-term misuse of alcohol can cause a wide range of mental health problems.
"It fits perfectly for the term 'egregious misuse' of personal data," he added.
The idea is to provide an alternative diagnostic label that is less likely than childhood bipolar to result in long term antipsychotic misuse.
A number of his executives have served jail terms for misuse of company funds, and the debts of the car company he left behind have mounted to $16 billion.
It said the strategy was too focused on binge drinking instead of looking at wider long-term alcohol misuse issues.
Panic disorder can develop or worsen as a direct result of long-term alcohol misuse.
The more we drink, the smaller our brains get: our dendrites, or signal receivers, get pruned by long-term alcohol misuse.
"We the descendants of Robert E. Lee decry in the strongest terms the misuse of his memory by those advancing a message of intolerance and hate," they wrote in the statement.
