So you’re saying it’s not a disorder until we make it one wiyh violence?
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roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A disorder must somehow negatively impact your activities of daily living like your job. If you’re explicitly making tons of money off your delusions, it’s not a disorder.
- outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago- roguetrick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago- Primarily what I was saying is we should avoid thinking material conditions that create rational bad actors are pathologies or moral failings. 
 
- HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago- This definition denies the existence of the functional disabled. 
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
so successful sociopaths and narcissists don’t have a disorder?
i don’t think that’s quite right.
yucandu@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He is half right but he forgot the “or negatively impact others’ lives” half.
MehBlah@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
A narc doesn’t care about others. Its their disorder.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
When it comes to the DSM-V, that’s how it works.
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
there’s nothing about negatively affecting others lives?
roguetrick@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Only if it makes you unable to develop stable relationships.