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Re:Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection ... by whimsicalism on Monday September 11, 2023 @12:06PM (#37469320)
I don't even understand the distinction you are trying to make. Your mind is part of your physical body. If you are depressed then it is constitutively a physical ailment.

Are people just this bought into mind-body dualism like two centuries later?

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Re:Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection ... by francisofascii on Monday September 11, 2023 @01:20PM (#37470437)
Depression is physical ailment but it can have either an external cause (a death, loss of job) and an internal/physical ailment (a virus or other pathogen) which causes depression.
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Re:Chronic fatigue syndrome may have a post-viral infection ... by EatingWithForks on Monday September 11, 2023 @02:08PM (#37471158)
It's the difference between a woman with a worm in her head experiencing depression and brain fog (because, y'know, a parasitic worm was in her head) and claiming her depression had caused a parastic worm to appear in her head
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