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Originally Posted by Lovebird
I'm really not interested in debating whether or not depression is "sin" or "medical." The fact is, there is something wrong with my physical brain, and that makes it medical.
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I think it depends on how one sees "medical" or what is included under the term "medical". I think some people, including some psychiatrists, use "medical" to deny that a person's experience has anything to do with the development of "mental illness". They want to see it as purely the result of "physical" factors (such as chemicals or genetic malformations). If medicine can include the effects of human interactions on the development of "mental illness" then that is to the good (I think).