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"Do the meds work" isn't a good criterion for whether something is a disease because 1) many illnesses are untreatable, and 2) you can use drugs to stop non-disease behaviors and preferences easily (chemical castration of homosexuals).

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Agreed, with the addition that may also be an indication that determining if something is a disease or not isn't that helpful (where I define helpful as "helps make the patient better of).

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