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by gruez 303 days ago
>What counts as a “disorder” is often not based on empirical evidence but on what is determined as undesirable, maladaptive, or outside the social norm

What's the alternative then? What would "empirically" determining what a "disorder" is look like?

>…by Americans

Most of the world outside of the US uses the ICD, not the DSM.