Posted by munificentexegete on February 19, 2007, at 18:59:38
In reply to Re: Everything I believe may be wrong, posted by Squiggles on February 19, 2007, at 16:00:52
> Whatever the cause, there are certain mental
> states that have identical clusters of symptoms;
> those symptoms for practical purposes fall under
> the categories of mania, or schizophrenia, or
> catatonic depression, or memory loss.
>
> You have to have some label to identify the
> condition. That's the case with all medical
> diseases. As to how accurate or descriptive they are of physical, or social, or transient or permanent brain damage-- that's another matter.
>
> Squiggles
cause isn't an issue.
an illness
defined as a purely
subjective concept
is an arbitrarily imposable
construct allowing anyone
to be defined as ill.a subjective illness
does not objectively
separate the sick
from the well
and therefore
does not define an illness
poster:munificentexegete
thread:732492
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