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RE: Mental illness
December 29, 2013 at 3:59 pm
(December 23, 2013 at 2:05 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote:
(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.

I'm glad to hear that I can finally refer to my job as a mental illness.
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Mental illness - by Tea Earl Grey Hot - December 23, 2013 at 1:47 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Minimalist - December 23, 2013 at 1:50 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Psykhronic - December 23, 2013 at 1:51 pm
RE: Mental illness - by LastPoet - December 23, 2013 at 1:52 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Jackalope - December 23, 2013 at 2:05 pm
RE: Mental illness - by FlyingNarwhal - December 29, 2013 at 3:59 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Chad32 - December 23, 2013 at 2:52 pm
RE: Mental illness - by pop_punks_not_dead - December 29, 2013 at 3:51 pm
RE: Mental illness - by freedomfromforum - December 29, 2013 at 3:57 pm
RE: Mental illness - by StuW - December 29, 2013 at 3:57 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Angrboda - December 29, 2013 at 4:04 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Rev. Rye - December 29, 2013 at 5:57 pm
RE: Mental illness - by bennyboy - December 29, 2013 at 7:23 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Rev. Rye - December 29, 2013 at 7:34 pm
RE: Mental illness - by bennyboy - December 29, 2013 at 7:58 pm
RE: Mental illness - by c172 - December 29, 2013 at 7:43 pm
RE: Mental illness - by Mudhammam - January 12, 2014 at 3:01 am
RE: Mental illness - by Jackalope - January 12, 2014 at 5:02 am

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