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  • mecfs@lemmy.worldOPtoUnpopular Opinion@lemmy.world"Mental Illness" are not just "Mental"
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    6 months ago

    Talk therapy also helps cancer patients and people with biological chronic illness. So does exercise. Doesn’t mean these are mental illnesses.

    The distress though isn’t the brunt of the condition. If you were of the opposite gender that people see you as you would be stressed too. Same tactic was used in the past to brand being gay as a mental illness. In my country’s textbook the definition also included “severe distress”