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Well, it's complicated, because although you might get depressed to issues of the mind, once that switch has been flipped in your brain, then you do have a biol
by jdpigeon 10y ago
Well, it's complicated, because although you might get depressed to issues of the mind, once that switch has been flipped in your brain, then you do have a biologically-mediated disease and you're often totally fucked without some kind of medical intervention.
- mr_tyzic 10y agoEverything in the mind is biologically mediated. That doesn't make every mind problem a disease.
- reverius42 10y agoDoesn't it? Replace the word "mind" with "body" and it seems like the very definition of disease.
- mr_tyzic 10y agoBy that argument, if you're grieving the loss of a loved one, deciding whether to marry, struggling to write a novel, or even fixing a bug in a computer program, you have a disease. All those presumably have some biochemical correlate.
- collyw 10y ago"Everything in the mind is biologically mediated" Proof of that?
- mr_tyzic 10y agoNo proof, but I meant an implicit "even if you assume that" at the start of the comment.