Callysta wrote:
There really are conditions like Aspergers and ADD, but the VAST majority of the time it is over-diagnosed. Having had students that were in both of these categories (and on the extreme end of the spectrum), I can attest to their existence.
I don't doubt that, we were more talking along the lines of there are some conditions that are, in fact, conditions the human body can take, but that aren't inherently bad ones, just not happy good times ones.
What we were talking about specifically was anti-depressant medication being pushed in Japan recently, where traditionally and culturally they do not view being sad as a bad thing, but as simply another state of being that is a necessary part of life balance.
I guess in that case the distinction would be between clinical depression (it is caused by biochemical factors that are abnormal), and just depression in general (people taking pills to cope with loss of a loved one). One is a real, actual medical problem, and one is just something someone wants to sell you a pill for.
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