>>14185799>according to Oxford Dictionary, “science” is defined asYou're really trying to pull off that 'Ackchually' thing while deliberately ignoring the issues that most psychiatric/psychological studies are non-replicable. Many psychiatric theories are pseudo-scientific because not unprovable or more generally just bad science including what is known as cargo cult science. There is also a difference between working with a hypothesis e.g. assuming that mental illness may be correlated with some physiological anomaly vs. claiming that mental illness IS biological. Think again. What of the two things is sternly promoted to people by the psychiatric establishment?
>Treatment improves the quality of life and functionality in people that sufferDefine quality of life and functionality.
>There exist definitions with which you can measure the effect, but that is irrelevant to my pointSo we're ultimately back to arbitrary definitions of 'what is a good life' and 'normal'.
>Oxford definitionCambridge definition:
(an) illness of people, animals, plants, etc., caused by infection or a failure of health rather than by an accident:
I also love that you have to back down to an argumentum ad verecundiam. Please differentiate between 'disease' and 'disorder'. It makes you look like a psychology freshman.
>mental disorders clearly disorder function in humans.This isn't an argument. It's ultimately just an assertion that you make and actually have to prove or strengthen in some way.
>Measuring activation potentials of billions of neurons in real-time and mapping them to form any form of coherent picture you can analyze is not simple.So we're back to 'it's not simple' but 'it's going to happen, trust me' because we're damn sure 'that our working hypothesis is in fact how things must be'.
>that is a straight-up lieIt's not. Medication for schizophrenia and bi-polar disorder cause blood pressure, diabetes, shorten life expectancy etc.
