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Disorder basically just means something that causes problems in your life, I don't think we know enough about psychology to have great ideas about how different
by liminvorous 5y ago
Disorder basically just means something that causes problems in your life, I don't think we know enough about psychology to have great ideas about how different environments could affect stuff like this. Scott Alexander has an interesting post about the nature of categorising stuff like this in general and ADHD in particular: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatric-conditions https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatri...
- afarrell 5y ago> Among the conditions that were very strongly found to be dimensional only were depression, anxiety, and ADHD. which makes sense if those are abnormal levels of neuromodulators like serotonin, cortisol, and dopamine.