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Remember that the people who make and use the DSM are the same people who said Drapetomania was a real thing and still say Oppositional Defiant Disorder is a real thing. Most understandings of "mental illness" victimize and pathologise the already marginalised and oppressed more than they actually help people who truly need help.
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right that's part of why it's a fake grouping.
whatever is wrong with the leeches isn't perceived by liberal society as dysfunction, and pathologizing it doesn't further the marginalization of anyone because jeff bezos disease doesn't present in people with modest amounts of money. even grindset bros would relax on a few million, there's gotta be something extra going on with the ones who keep going because they don't all try to keep going like that. the entire point of it for FIRE types is that you get to stop at some point.
Yeah, sounds about right.
These people do definitely have something wrong with them, it's just that liberal society rewards that while pathologizing people who can't fit into capitalism and to a lesser degree all the normal people like you and me who don't have any form of "line go up" disease.
If we want to consider them mentally ill, that requires a complete restructuring of the societal role that "mental health" as an institution occupies.
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