(December 23, 2013 at 1:47 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: How should mental illness be defined? How do you decide when somebody's abnormal behavior is an illness that needs to be cured or just an interesting personality trait? Is a trait something to be corrected when it causes "harm"? How do you define "harm" then?
IIRC, it is considered a disorder when it causes "distress or disability" - in other words, "harm" would be when the person who is experiencing it finds it distressing or disabling.
That works for me.
