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by reliablereason 85 days ago
No but it is a behaviourally defined disorder like autism. Which means it can and has many different causal patterns behind it.

That is there are many different things that can cause the behaviour.

Anyway on your main point, the definition of all psychiatric disorders has requirements of subjective suffering. So if you don't have subjective suffering you don't have the disorder.