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by tgv 1573 days ago
> "Mental disorders" are just artificial conventions that classify emotional distress, non-compliant behavior and stuff.

Illness is also an artificial convention that classifies physical distress, abnormal phenomena, "and stuff." That doesn't make it less useful as a label. There are people out there with all kinds of mental disorders.

> I also doubt that ... mental order or disorder of the user.

Me too. The article basically sounds like fund-raising/trying to get support from a different financial source.