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I don't even understand the distinction you are trying to make. Your mind is part of your physical body. If you are depressed then it is constitutively a physic

I don't even understand the distinction you are trying to make. Your mind is part of your physical body. If you are depressed then it is constitutively a physical ailment. Are people just this bought into mind-body dualism like two centuries later?

francisofascii 3y ago
Depression is physical ailment but it can have either an external cause (a death, loss of job) and an internal/physical ailment (a virus or other pathogen) which causes depression.
EatingWithForks 3y ago
It's the difference between a woman with a worm in her head experiencing depression and brain fog (because, y'know, a parasitic worm was in her head) and claiming her depression had caused a parastic worm to appear in her head