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You misunderstand, the definition of a mental illness is a significant impediment to normal and healthy behaviour. It's not defined by the media.
Take for example, anxiety. It may or may not cause mental illness, depending on whether the anxiety is clinically significant.
Everyone gets anxious at times, but excessive anxiety is detrimental, and therefore, a mental illness.
Oh no I perfectly understand that. In various comments around this article I've said that the people with mental illnesses that compel them to overuse anything are valid and should be helped.
But throwing around the word "porn addiction" as the article is doing is irresponsible and misleading.
And it's possible I missed this, but I haven't found any evidence that any members of this tribe have been diagnosed by any medical professionals with any sort of mental illness. It's just a 73 year old complaining about the world around him changing. And even then, none of his actual quotes from the original NY times interview mention pornography addiction- that seems to have been entirely added by the editors of the various new outlets that have picked this story up. They are trying to sensationalize this story and rile up evangelicals.
Ah okay, I see what you're saying now.
I was less interested in the context and more on the clinical criteria.