Comment on Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction
mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 2 weeks agoInteresting. How many times do I have to explain the concept of needing multiple criteria in order to diagnose addiction for you to understand it?
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I was seriously asking. Judging by your reaction though, I assume it doesn’t give a number. Probably because it doesn’t really factor into the diagnosis at all. The core of the diagnosis will be based on how much it affects your health and happiness.
mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Because you seem to lack the understanding that no one criteria is enough to diagnose addiction. And yes the preoccupation and duration of use are listed as criteria in both ICD-11 and the DSM-5. Just because there is no set number doesn’t mean they do not factor in to diagnosis. And again how it affects your health and life in generell are obviously also criteria by which addiction gets diagnosed. But saying duration and amount of use are not factors is not true.
lastlybutfirstly@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
What you don’t understand is that addiction is actually a symptom of another illness and doctors would like to get rid of the concept of addiction, but they can’t because it’d collapse a billion dollar industry, turn the DEA and the rest of the government against them, and they’d never hear the end of it from the lay people. “Preoccupation and duration of use” are fuzzy weasel words without any clear definition tacked on to this criteria simply to appease us wall-eyed villagers.
mrbutterscotch@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Which doctors are trying to get rid of the “concept” of addiction? What Illness is addiction a “symptom” of? What billion Dollar Industry are you talking about exaclty? If Addiction is a symptom and not an illness why did you spend this whole thread arguing about its criteria? Symptoms aren’t diagnosed.
The only one being fuzzy and vague is you