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Suave · 04-20-2005, 08:10 AM

I don't remember all of the criteria (they're written in a notebook that I don't have with me), but the one that I remember it definitely not fitting (as most mental "illnesses" do not) is the existence of lesion.

Others that I do not remember so well were (vaguely) symptoms, a foreseeable conclusion, treatability (I think specifically referring to drugs). The wording is definitely off on these, and there are a couple more I believe, but the overall concepts are there.

Anyway, they're criteria actually put out by the medical association of somethingorother, which are used to identify diseases. The theory behind mental disorders and their classification as disease (or at least one of the theories) is that it allows drug companies far greater control over the treatment of the disorders, and thus guarantees more profit.

And no, I've never been diagnosed as being clinically depressed. I am, however, classified as being considerably at risk for developing or having some mental disorders, due to some tests that I've taken.

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Suave Twitterpated Location: My own little world (also Canada)	I don't remember all of the criteria (they're written in a notebook that I don't have with me), but the one that I remember it definitely not fitting (as most mental "illnesses" do not) is the existence of lesion. Others that I do not remember so well were (vaguely) symptoms, a foreseeable conclusion, treatability (I think specifically referring to drugs). The wording is definitely off on these, and there are a couple more I believe, but the overall concepts are there. Anyway, they're criteria actually put out by the medical association of somethingorother, which are used to identify diseases. The theory behind mental disorders and their classification as disease (or at least one of the theories) is that it allows drug companies far greater control over the treatment of the disorders, and thus guarantees more profit. And no, I've never been diagnosed as being clinically depressed. I am, however, classified as being considerably at risk for developing or having some mental disorders, due to some tests that I've taken. __________________ "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions." - Albert Einstein "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato Last edited by Suave; 04-20-2005 at 08:12 AM..