Originally Posted by
JamesBond007
You don't understand science and medicine. Since no category of mental illnesses can be 'cured' they are obviously not real scientific objective brain diseases otherwise they would belong to the same branch of medicine as most brain diseases i.e. neurology or whatnot. Objective (biological, chemical, physical) tests for diseases are based on the assumption that diseases are somatic phenomena. Accordingly, the claim that mental illnesses are brain diseases is profoundly self-contradictory: a disease of the brain is a brain disease, not a mental disease. Except for a few objectively identifiable brain diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, there are neither biological or chemical tests nor biopsy or necropsy findings for verifying or falsifying DSM diagnoses.
According to scientific philosopher Karl Popper, If I recall correctly, 'scientific theories' that are non-falsifiable, such as psychiatric diagnoses or DSM categories, are pseudo-science. Let me put it this way : Aristotle would say mental illness does not exist probably if he were alive today according to his philosophy but Plato would say it exists perhaps. Aristotles' natural philosophy turned into physics and plato's probing of the intangible wall of the mind should still be in the philosophical category. All real science must obey the laws of physics and neurology does. To say that psychiatry and psychology follow the laws of physics is nonsensical.
Does mental illness exist ? People have problems of living or certain behaviours that bother themselves or others neurotically. Therefore, mental illness is a social construct of the 90-130 IQ inferior neolithic human group since they have strong emphasis on adherence to group behavorial norms. Does mental illness exist in the objective reality scientific sense ? absolutely not ! However, there is neither profit nor glory in delineating what counts as a real disease and what does not.
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