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by hn_throwaway_99 303 days ago
These reductio ad absurdum arguments are wholly unpersuasive. The fact that there are some debatable gray areas in the DSMs seems like poor reasoning to throw the baby out with the bathwater. E.g. things like schizophrenia, OCD, major depressive disorder, etc. are so highly disruptive to the individuals involved that arguing that they shouldn't be disorders (or, contrary, that anything else is a disorder) feels like an unhelpful semantic game.