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Are mental disorders real?
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2018-02-17 at 11:16 AM UTCMental illness is "real" in the same sense that any taxonomical project. It's like asking "are felines real?". Obviously there are real which which we call felines and having the feline classification is useful to us, but it's hard to say the category "feline" exist out in the world in any meaningful sense, there is nothing in nature, nor will there ever be, to suggest it's a meaningful partition of Carnivora. Likewise mental disorder or mental health represent socially useful taxa but do not have any extra-social meaning.
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2018-02-17 at 11:42 AM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny Mental illness is "real" in the same sense that any taxonomical project. It's like asking "are felines real?". Obviously there are real which which we call felines and having the feline classification is useful to us, but it's hard to say the category "feline" exist out in the world in any meaningful sense, there is nothing in nature, nor will there ever be, to suggest it's a meaningful partition of Carnivora. Likewise mental disorder or mental health represent socially useful taxa but do not have any extra-social meaning.
You may very well be the world's most educated retard. -
2018-02-17 at 3:21 PM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny Mental illness is "real" in the same sense that any taxonomical project. It's like asking "are felines real?". Obviously there are real which which we call felines and having the feline classification is useful to us, but it's hard to say the category "feline" exist out in the world in any meaningful sense, there is nothing in nature, nor will there ever be, to suggest it's a meaningful partition of Carnivora. Likewise mental disorder or mental health represent socially useful taxa but do not have any extra-social meaning.
lannys latest favorite word is taxonomy~. -
2018-02-17 at 3:26 PM UTC
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2018-02-17 at 3:27 PM UTC
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2018-02-17 at 3:29 PM UTC
Originally posted by Lanny Mental illness is "real" in the same sense that any taxonomical project. It's like asking "are felines real?". Obviously there are real which which we call felines and having the feline classification is useful to us, but it's hard to say the category "feline" exist out in the world in any meaningful sense, there is nothing in nature, nor will there ever be, to suggest it's a meaningful partition of Carnivora. Likewise mental disorder or mental health represent socially useful taxa but do not have any extra-social meaning.
This is basically what I was gonna say, sans the grammatical errors and hipsterish condescension -
2018-02-17 at 3:30 PM UTCyes
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2018-02-17 at 4:44 PM UTC
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2018-02-17 at 4:48 PM UTCI want Lanny to taxonomize my insides
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2018-02-17 at 6:45 PM UTCno, they're all in your headThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2018-02-17 at 9:47 PM UTCfuck you I was drunk and still am and that give me the right to subject you to my poor compositional abilities
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2018-02-17 at 9:47 PM UTCalso taxonomy is a cool word and we should all use it more
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2018-02-17 at 9:47 PM UTCalso taxon
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2018-02-17 at 9:47 PM UTCbitch
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2018-02-17 at 10:14 PM UTCCalling it a "disorder" takes away from what it really is, and mostly attempts to isolate and alienate the effect from the subject of the experience. It's not like the "disorder" is a third-party visitor, or something that arrives on its own volition. The "disorder" is simply the result of the cause, what the seeds sown have reaped, nurtured, created and brought forth entirely by the subject himself. It's like if you hold a rock out in front of you and drop it. The dropped rock is not a mystery that needs to be examined and identified, it is simply the result of the rock being dropped. People tend to want to over-analyse everything, just so they can search out excuses for their own perverted behaviors, but it's really not that complicated at all. You behave and live your life like a fool/idiot, you get what you paid for. It's that simple!
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2018-02-18 at 2:26 AM UTC
Originally posted by -SpectraL Calling it a "disorder" takes away from what it really is, and mostly attempts to isolate and alienate the effect from the subject of the experience. It's not like the "disorder" is a third-party visitor, or something that arrives on its own volition. The "disorder" is simply the result of the cause, what the seeds sown have reaped, nurtured, created and brought forth entirely by the subject himself. It's like if you hold a rock out in front of you and drop it. The dropped rock is not a mystery that needs to be examined and identified, it is simply the result of the rock being dropped. People tend to want to over-analyse everything, just so they can search out excuses for their own perverted behaviors, but it's really not that complicated at all. You behave and live your life like a fool/idiot, you get what you paid for. It's that simple!
its first and foremost a condition, but becos a majority of the normies dont have it ...
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2018-02-18 at 2:34 AM UTCAll illness is nothing more than chemical imbalance.
Mental or physical,people take drugs because they want to restore balance in there system. -
2018-02-18 at 2:36 AM UTCUnless you are possessed by a demon.
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