Posted by laima on February 18, 2007, at 17:45:46
In reply to Re: DSMIV definition » Larry Hoover, posted by munificentexegete on February 18, 2007, at 17:06:59
You also have to consider ability to function.
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> 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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