> if you don't require some degree of significant impairment of functioning, a whole lot of criteria for mental illness would apply to huge swaths of the population. E.g. this is why the diagnostic criteria for ADHD include: "There is clear evidence that the symptoms interfere with or reduce the quality of social, academic, or occupational functioning."
Wouldn't this just tell us that these categories are completely meaningless?
Wouldn't this just tell us that these categories are completely meaningless?