>>11510521>Why is psychosis with high insight (people who realize they have hallucinations) a disorder, yet the visual artifacts anybody gets with low blood pressure are put under the rug as normal? Both are artifacts of perception just as much. Both are recognized by the person as such and compensated for.Because having hallucinations is abnormal, a phenomenon produced by some sort of organical o psychological damage (mostly the first), most people don't have it and the ones who do are mostly affected by it or are accompanied by other symptoms from that spectrum. If you are questioning if hallucinations are harmful at all thats beyond any serious debate.
Organic related symptoms should fall under organic related diseases, thus psychological effect is a sub-product of the main disease. i.e. alzheimer's which is a biological deterioration process of the brain which manifests psychological symptoms (amnesia, perception disorder, memory disorder).
>Forgetting is an unavoidable part of life. Deciding some type of forgetting is a pathology is arbitrary.Forgetting is unavoidable that is. But amnesia is not forgetting, its an alteration of the normal process of memory, with commonly organic underlaying causes. See famous case H.M., a guy who despite living in 1975 he always woke up thinking he was living in 1945 and acted like it. He was unable to record any new events, which is an anterograd-type memory loss which is obviously not normal nor functional for everyone. So no, it isn't arbitrary.
>Why does the distress of the rest of society cause some behavior to be pathological?I don't know. Why being a mass murderer distress society? Maybe because it doesn't adapt to the norm and yea it kills people. Antisocial personality disorder is one clear example of that.
>Fallacy of appeal to popularity.No, you just want to question everything which is cute. But if we were to apply that to everything the science wouldn't exist at all except from the field of physics
