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Originally Posted by ScientiaOmnisEst
I was more concerned about the articles' claims that mental illness doesn't exist, or that it's wrong to help suicides. That what we call mental illness is just "life problems" or natural variations in human experience. Or another argument that pathologizing certain behaviors infringes on people's rights (because you're basically saying it's wrong to think or do certain things - if mental diagnoses were laws, we'd live in a fascist dystopia where thoughtcrime is rampant). Or indeed, the argument that we only see things as disorders because of our culture and there's actually nothing wrong.
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Of course mental illness exists. Those who have done the hard work to become better can testify to that.