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Re:The Hair Dryer Incident (2014) by myself248 on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:28AM (#27547363)
But basically, if you have some horrible effects from the thing, and by some herculean effort or remarkable circumstance you're able to work around it, then by definition you don't have a disorder and it's not treatable.

Heaven help you if the effort or circumstance becomes unsustainable, when you could've had years to treat the underlying problem but medicine denied it was a problem.

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Re:The Hair Dryer Incident (2014) by kdmccormick on Friday June 18, 2021 @12:54AM (#27547483)
Such "herculean efforts" would constitute distress. If you're successfully busting ass every day to compensate for depressive symptoms, you might have a depressive disorder.

As for your point w.r.t. circumstances: yes, this seems to be by design. Someome who might be diagnosed with schizophrenia in the US could easily be considered just quirky or even revered as a sort of spiritual guru in other cultures where symptoms have fewer/no negative impacts (and thus do not present so "horribly").

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