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