Current definitions of mental disorder look like pure statistical fitting into the normal distribution, a pre-agreed standard, without genuine understanding of the phenomenon. If every deviation automatically carries the label of disorder, then even potentially beneficial variations lose meaning, which contradicts the very idea of health. This raises the question of whether suffering should be read as a defect or, as Eastern traditions suggest, as a necessary process of maturation and self-understanding.
Current definitions of mental disorder look like pure statistical fitting into the normal distribution, a pre-agreed standard, without genuine understanding of the phenomenon. If every deviation automatically carries the label of disorder, then even potentially beneficial variations lose meaning, which contradicts the very idea of health. This raises the question of whether suffering should be read as a defect or, as Eastern traditions suggest, as a necessary process of maturation and self-understanding.