> Personally struggling with addiction or depression or attachment issues or trauma or physical pain or attention span is foundational to the human experience

> Personally struggling with addiction or depression or attachment issues or trauma or physical pain or attention span is foundational to the human experience And when they're chronic and severely life impacting, all of those things are disabilities. With medical interventions. > You'd be wildly abnormal if you didn't have to deal with at least one of these things to get through the day. You're correct. However the disorders don't describe people that experience them chronically and more severely than the rest of the population. > I just think the wild over diagnosis and medication of what is essentially a personal struggle that's completely normal Citation? >what else can we call something that a third of the population has? Again, citation? My understanding is that it's much closer to 5%. > encourages the pathologization of normal human functioning at the same time as it creates victim mentality and removes responsibility and agency from individuals oh man, I wish it removed any responsibility. Nope. Still gotta make sure my taxes get paid on time or else get thousands of dollars in fees. I know because I've neglected to do so before until the IRS was threatening to garnish my wages. Twice. > it creates victim mentality No, it creates an environment that we have a better chance of succeeding in, and helps combat the narrative that we're just failures.