I believe we started with a faulty premise, that perfectly natural states of mind are an "illness" I tend to agree, but this is only partly true. It isn't beca

I believe we started with a faulty premise, that perfectly natural states of mind are an "illness" I tend to agree, but this is only partly true. It isn't because something is "natural" that it is therefore healthy and desirable. Some mental states, whether genetic or environmental, are very debilitating to the individual that has to live with them. So there is value in trying to "cure" certain mental afflictions. But yes, the field of psychology suffers from a fashion-based ideology that appears to want to mold every individual to the same narrow (and flawed) ideal. But in my experience, this fashion trend diminishes with expertise: most behavioral and forensic psychiatrists I've sproken explicitly eschew that type of prescriptivism.