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And this complete decline in functioning is one of the major reasons that
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we consider depression one of the most debilitating disorders.
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And then finally, "deviance," the behaviors or feelings are highly unusual.
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This is probably the most controversial of the three.
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Because it weighs, it is so heavily influenced by the social norms.
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What's deviant in one culture is not deviant in another culture.
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But if a set of behaviors is completely
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unacceptable to a culture, highly unusual, they're more likely to end up
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getting labeled as abnormal. Okay. So, how do we pull this all together?
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Well, these days the manual for making diagnoses in clinical psychology
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and psychiatry in the United States is called
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the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual or the DSM,