Posted by munificentexegete on February 18, 2007, at 17:06:59
In reply to Re: DSMIV definition » munificentexegete, posted by Larry Hoover on February 18, 2007, at 10:13:28
> If you're going to ignore key words in the definition, then you have redefined it. The definition uses words such as: severe, extreme, exaggerated, seriously, overly. Your redefinition avoids any of those adjectives, and therefore encompasses a broader population, rendering it meaningless. The original version had a specific meaning.
hi Lar
i guess the point is, adding those words does not an objective diagnosis make; how do we distinguish a person with illness from health? everyone gets happy and sad in cycles, that is human nature, that is life itself. With severeity of such changes being determined subjectively, everyone can be diagnosed with such an illness, it is a meanlingless definition with no objective component allowing the well to be defined as ill.
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