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> make it difficult for those people to function in everyday society? They normally add in "and causes the person distress".
by DanBC 8y ago
> make it difficult for those people to function in everyday society?
They normally add in "and causes the person distress".
- jdietrich 8y agoThe standard formulation in the DSM stipulates that symptoms should cause "clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning". About half of the listed disorders contain this clinical significance stipulation. Given the inherently subjective nature of psychiatric diagnostic criteria, the authors of the DSM have gone to a reasonable effort to avoid pathologising healthy eccentricity.