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Why Do So Many Mental Illnesses Overlap?
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A disorder also doesn't really "exist" if it's not actually causing distress or... well, disorder. Mental disorders are basically cultural constructs in that what is disruptive in one culture isn't necessarily disruptive in another. "ADHD" in one culture may be "wow, she's really good at hunting" in another. A schizophrenic person in one culture may be a cleric in another.
yeah there are some zany established differences in the manifestation of schizophrenia between cultures and how it's treated—religious visions, interestingly, tend to be a rather Christian manifestation of schizophrenia and apparently are not so common even in other Abrahamic-dominated countries