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Who decides the names of diseases?

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Various doctors.

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But we have general criterions.

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We have the ICD and the DSM, which are international standards for the definition of mental diseases.

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We know that if a person has a certain set of symptoms, we can consult these standards and find the exact name of the disease the person is suffering from.

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As you know, the mind can be a difficult thing to understand.

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For that reason, psychiatrists have publications, and we communicate all the time, sharing our data and our understanding of mental illness.

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We accumulate data and categorize it so that we can diagnose patients as correctly as possible.

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There’s mental illness you don't understand? Not even you?

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To tell you the truth, we don’t understand much of this at all.

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If there has been a successful treatment method for a patient with a certain disease in the past, we can apply that treatment method toward a patient suffering from the same disease in the present.

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Much of this has to do with experience.

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You do this even if you don’t know if a person can be cured?

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Right.

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You can’t tell if a person will be cured.

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We can only try our best to heal and help with our experience from the past.

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That’s usually the case.

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But from the point of view of the patient, knowing if one will become better is very important.

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In fact, the understanding of the mechanisms behind getting better is an area of study of its own.

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I see. It would be so much better if we could understand everything.