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Your point is what, that behavioral disorders aren't disorders? Do you give the same advice to addiction patients or anxiety or OCD sufferers? Some people hav
by ajross 2y ago
Your point is what, that behavioral disorders aren't disorders? Do you give the same advice to addiction patients or anxiety or OCD sufferers? Some people have an easier time controlling some behaviors that some other people, and that fact is important where it intersects with health and worthy of consideration as a "medical" condition worthy of treatment, and not knee-jerk judgement on HN.
Surely you personally are a skinny guy whose never had trouble with weight. Equally surely there's some behavioral quirk you have that you'd like to change but have struggled with. So... maybe hold off on the "just do it" framing?
- Kalanos 2y agoNotice that everything else is phrased as "Don't smoke." It's tiptoeing around obesity