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Originally Posted by somat
But it is different than knowing the difference between a cold and flu because psychiatric labels are essentially social constructions. Why the definitions keep changing whereas the definition for cold or flu does not change.
Acting like they aren't just collections of symptoms but something more concrete is part of the problem...
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They actually are more complicated than social constructs, I mean people with mental disorders often suffer very real, debilitating symptoms...its not like the term depression just gets randomly applied to people for instance one gets the diagnoses from suffering very real depression symtpoms. Also whilst criteria can be altered/changed and names of disorders can change its not as if every disorder is constantly being drastically changed into something else. For instance what is considered anxiety symptoms now was considered anxiety symptoms 10 years ago to.