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The Wayward Science's avatar

Mental illness is neither a disease nor a preference nor a myth. It is a causal system with multiple mutually interacting parts, genetic, situational, environmental, random, that lead to poor adaptation and personal misery. You appear to have little understanding of recent empirical and conceptual work on psychopathology (hierarchical taxonomy, network analysis, harmful dysfunction a la Wakefield).

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Scott N Kurland's avatar

That's what disease means. Also, illness and disease are synonyms.

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