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Topic	Scientifically speaking do successful people have a mental disorder?
COVxy 11/22/17 10:31:00 AM #13:	Balrog0 posted... COVxy posted... I mean, the current definition of mental disorder is that it must be disruptive and detrimental to everyday life. such a shitty criteria imho I mean, for clinical reasons it's obvious why it's there. It's probably scientifically more important to think about things in terms of abnormality. Though, you run into issues where people are sensitive to that word. I mean, homosexuality is an abnormality. Transgenderism is an abmormality. But people get upset about that, so people just don't discuss it with the public. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] <cite>COVxy posted [p:890862836] in Scientific... [t:76019085]...</cite> <quote><cite>Balrog0 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>COVxy posted...</cite> <quote>I mean, the current definition of mental disorder is that it must be disruptive and detrimental to everyday life. </quote> such a shitty criteria imho</quote> I mean, for clinical reasons it's obvious why it's there. It's probably scientifically more important to think about things in terms of abnormality. Though, you run into issues where people are sensitive to that word. I mean, homosexuality is an abnormality. Transgenderism is an abmormality. But people get upset about that, so people just don't discuss it with the public. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])]</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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