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by naasking 3306 days ago
> What can explain a psychological disorder other than underlying physical disease? Attributing a disease to psychological disorder is indistinguishable from saying "we don't understand what causes this."

It might be ultimately reducible in this way, but the treatments for various psychological conditions are often very different than physiological problems.

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Right, but that's also often just due to limitations in science. All psychological problems are physical, they're just very complex physics and chemistry of the brain which we still don't understand and have no medicated or surgical ways of altering for the better.

Just as you can heal a muscle injury with simple rehabilitating exercises, some psychological injuries can be rehabilitated similarly with exercise of the brain. That doesn't change the physicality of it.