From what you write, I can only assume you have had very little conscious experience with mental health disorders.
Some (most?), like OCD and BPD have extremely specific symptomatologies that are often counter intuitive and quite surprising similarities between people. The generalized, lay-person, conceptions of these illness miss these specific symptoms.
As such it doesn't make sense to call them anything but diseases.
Some (most?), like OCD and BPD have extremely specific symptomatologies that are often counter intuitive and quite surprising similarities between people. The generalized, lay-person, conceptions of these illness miss these specific symptoms.
As such it doesn't make sense to call them anything but diseases.