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      11 hours ago

      If you are delusional to a degree that it is preventing you to function in your daily life, that is absolutely mental disease. Per definition.

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      22 hours ago

      A behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning; however, it excludes normal responses such as the grief from loss of a loved one and also excludes deviant behavior for political, religious, or societal reasons not arising from a dysfunction in the individual.