You aren’t worth responding to.

So you believe that people with real diagnosed medical issues should just suck it up because somewhere else in the world people don’t have running water.

What a terrible response.

Your restating of your position here is much clearer. I don’t agree with it because I don’t believe it’s actually being medicalized as you say and I believe that people function and cope just fine, but I do better understand where you are coming from. Thanks for taking the time.

Its dangerous and harmful because it leads to inappropriate interventions.

What interventions? You seem to be assuming that people who are saying “hey, I have condition X” are running out and getting treatment without getting diagnosed. And how is this different that “appropriate coping mechanisms”?

I’m completely sympathetic to the argument that people should absolutely deal with their issues rather than blame some random condition they think they have.

But the vibe I get here is that you believe only Qualified Medical Professionals ™ should be allowed to find and provide treatment, not the patient themselves. That they should not have agency in making decisions about what they have and how to deal with it. And from personal experience, this doesn’t work. And from very bitter and damaging personal experience of the LGBTQIA+ community it’s frightening.

The core of my position is that medicalizing subclinical symptoms is dangerous and harmful.

Ok, let’s assume you really meant that.

I have three issues with this: 1. what is deemed subclinical in this context is a lot more variable than one might think. It’s not like diagnosing cancer. 2. How is it dangerous and harmful? 3. Is it more dangerous to invalidate claims that medical professionals consider subclinical because they just don’t know, aren’t getting complete information or had too many patients that day?

I believe an individualized holistic approach should be made instead of trying to force a medical diagnosis that cannot fit.

That doesn’t make any sense.

You are trying to claim that you are making a simple factual statement when in fact the subtext - which is probably obvious to all - is that in your opinion you don’t think people’s claims of impairment or dysfunction are valid unless they have a specific medical diagnosis that YOU feel is valid. And the proof of this is that your statement can be as true reversed. IOW, you have NO idea if they’ve been medically diagnosed or if any diagnosis or absence thereof is valid or not. It really negates your point.

And why does this all matter to me, personally? Because my own personal experience with the medical establishment is that they pretty much throw shit out there that may be valid or may not and relies heavily on both the doctor’s and the patient’s own subjective assessment. A sibling was for decades diagnosed as intellectually disabled when in fact he has ASD because they were unable to communicate effectively. I was diagnosed with a common mental disorder by one doctor and told there was no way I could have that by another. It goes on… And so I tend to be pretty sympathetic when someone says “I feel impaired by <condition X>” and I don’t feel a need to question whether or not they have <condition X> or if there was a formal diagnosis or not. Again, because many of those diagnoses are about as valid one way or the other has throwing darts. Could be good, could have missed something completely, could have misinterpreted what the patient said because they weren’t able to communicate it in that moment.

What is important is what the person says about themselves. If they want to say they have ADHD or ASD or whatever, it’s not my place to gate keep or question that. Nor yours.

Edit: To put it another way… your statement is about as useful as, when someone says “I just love this blue dress I’m wearing” pointing out that “well akshually that’s turquoise”. The point is THEY like the color.

Nice gaslight Herr Doktor.

Your statement is meaningless. It’s just as meaningless as saying you didn’t diagnose the absence of a disorder.

A disorder is a medical diagnosis.

As is the absence of one.

“Difficulty or inability”

So some degree of difficulty and/or some degree of inability. Assessed by someone. Subjectively. Which means that there is absolutely no point in trying to infer that somehow those who say they feel they have some degree of difficulty or inability may not, in your opinion as not a medical professional, over the internet, actually have the disorder they and/or their doctor feel they have.

tl;dr your statement is completely meaningless

What do you blame your failures in life on? Because I guarantee you’ve got something you complain about.

Can you please define “interfere” Dr. Roguetrick?

Why don’t you go chop off one of your arms. Since life is a constant struggle, more struggle must be good right? You should definitely make your life HARDER.

How precisely is this a generational thing?

Actually women have superior rights during divorce, in the western world anyway. Try to keep the children as a man during divorce.

Found the incel. Please donate my prize money to any organization that supports passing the ERA.

Nah uh male huuumaaahn. You.

The fact that it apparently doesn’t sound creepy to you is creepy. You priapic huuumahn.

It was recently pointed out to me that when I tell my cat she’s been a bad cat - which I do every damned day - I’m actually using the “have you been a good boy” voice you’d use with your dog.

Don’t strain yourself.

It would seem that’s too complicated a concept for some folks.

You really haven’t thought this through, have you?