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Re:Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024) by aleph_minus_one on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @10:17PM (#45034751)
> Generally a disorder is considered something that significantly impacts someone's life, getting in the way of things like working, social life, life enjoyment.

With the same argument, we could arguue that working and social life are getting in the way how I am, thus working and social life should be considered disorders.

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Re:Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024) by hn_throwaway_99 on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @10:30PM (#45034833)
These reductio ad absurdum arguments are wholly unpersuasive. The fact that there are some debatable gray areas in the DSMs seems like poor reasoning to throw the baby out with the bathwater. E.g. things like schizophrenia, OCD, major depressive disorder, etc. are so highly disruptive to the individuals involved that arguing that they shouldn't be disorders (or, contrary, that anything else is a disorder) feels like an unhelpful semantic game.
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Re:Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024) by ben_sisko on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @12:42AM (#45035533)
Sounds like you need to read better books Bromaster General!
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Re:Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024) by aleph_minus_one on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @03:36AM (#45036564)
> Sounds like you need to read better books Bromaster General!

I don't get this reference (that is likely rooted in US popular culture).

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Re:Undisclosed financial conflicts of interest in DSM-5 (2024) by dns_snek on Wednesday August 27, 2025 @05:13AM (#45037151)
A ridiculous argument. Most often a disorder will impact activities you enjoy just as much as those you don't. Very broadly speaking, if all of your symptoms go away when you get home from work then you don't have a disorder, just a demanding, stressful job. That's certainly true for disorders like ADHD and ASD that are under attack these days.
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