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I don’t think your genetic makeup is an abstraction.
I'm not following your reasoning. It appears to be disjointed. Please explain
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Conversely, were over-diagnosing and now everyone is ill. Which necessarily follows because the closer you look the fewer people are "normal". In fact I'd go so far as to posit that everyone is aberrant, to nobody's surprise. And of course this is all derivated from a basis of largely qualitative soft-science which had ought be treated as an art than it is a science, however there are pressures which force both pract…
Okay so to summarize, casual dismissal of an entire field of medicine, insinuation that patients are faking mental illness to "look cool," justify their selfish behaviors, or get access to drugs, and that interventions for severe symptoms of mental illness either don't work or make things worse. It really does feel like I was bred in a lab to exist as the counterexample for all this. I was diagnosed with ADHD in midd…
This is definitely a thing, it first started getting obvious on Tiktok with Tourette's.
When I was a kid, it was video games that were ruining a generation, in my parents generation it was "the devils music" that was turning them into a bunch of degenerates. I wonder what the issues where when Galileo was a kid? They title says "epidemic of teenage mental illness", but do we not discriminate between mental illness and mental health? Where is that line? I'm not suggesting social media doesn't have it's c…
"People say [thing] is bad, but completely different people 50 years ago said [other thing] was bad" is not really an argument
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Okay so to summarize, casual dismissal of an entire field of medicine, insinuation that patients are faking mental illness to "look cool," justify their selfish behaviors, or get access to drugs, and that interventions for severe symptoms of mental illness either don't work or make things worse. It really does feel like I was bred in a lab to exist as the counterexample for all this. I was diagnosed with ADHD in midd…
> insinuation that patients are faking mental illness to "look cool," This is definitely a thing, it first started getting obvious on Tiktok with Tourette's.
So they didn't have Tourette's and they weren't faking it, but a seriously cool third thing. Monkey see monkey do is a powerful phenomenon. We just treat it as normal when it happens as part of socialization.
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I'm not following your reasoning. It appears to be disjointed. Please explain
Reification is the false assumption of using something abstract to make an objective classification. My point is in this case the underlying is not abstract, it’s as objective as it gets (your genetic makeup is a fact).