I don't think it's the symptoms itself that decides whether a diagnosis is necessary or not. Technically, everyone does have a certain amount of one or two of the symptoms. I think it's the level that they have it. For example, OCD. Most people have a few symptoms of that may seem like OCD, but people who really have the disorder can barely go about their day because of it. Or like the one you listed "the desire to hurt others"; yes, we are a violent species but it's the ones who desire to hurt someone so much that they actually go and do it. I do believe that certain disorders and diagnosis are real because some disorders effect the person's life to the point that it really does separate them or the way their mind functions from other people.
This. When a mix of behaviours become something that interferes with day to day life, that's when they would be looked into as possible symptoms of a mental illness.
Is it normal most mental illness symptoms seem normal to me?
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I don't think it's the symptoms itself that decides whether a diagnosis is necessary or not. Technically, everyone does have a certain amount of one or two of the symptoms. I think it's the level that they have it. For example, OCD. Most people have a few symptoms of that may seem like OCD, but people who really have the disorder can barely go about their day because of it. Or like the one you listed "the desire to hurt others"; yes, we are a violent species but it's the ones who desire to hurt someone so much that they actually go and do it. I do believe that certain disorders and diagnosis are real because some disorders effect the person's life to the point that it really does separate them or the way their mind functions from other people.
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This. When a mix of behaviours become something that interferes with day to day life, that's when they would be looked into as possible symptoms of a mental illness.