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He is ill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease

Mental illness's are disorders, that can be disabling to normal daily life. Our society accepting that things like OCD, Anxiety/Depression and Addition are diseases will allow us to actually address them. Your brain is not a magical thing that is beyond being ill, unfortunately it is extremely complex. I say this as someone who has been "sucking it up" for years until I finally hit a point that I sought help for depression.

http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/2010/06/t20100623a.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Major_depressive_disorder




>Mental illness's are disorders, that can be disabling to normal daily life. Our society accepting that things like OCD, Anxiety/Depression and Addition are diseases will allow us to actually address them.

Or you know, it will allow us to "invent" them, because we have drugs to sell, and because we have the luxury to overanalyse every whim.


So people are "inventing" symptoms? This just sounds cynical and unhelpful.




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