New Taxonomies of Mental Disorders Are Still Useful

Meth addicts have the bad luck to be addicted to something that's really bad for them and for society. Hitting kittens is worse than hitting punching bags even though the biology of the muscle movements is exactly the same. We may want to categorize being addicted to meth differently from being addicted to Twitter, even if the neurobiology behind both addictions turns out to be similar. The things that are biologically similar can be ethically and practically different. Panic disorder should be a mental disorder and meditative bliss states should not be a Mental Disorder because they involve similar mental feedback mechanisms. So your purely biological apolitical taxonomy of mental disorders will either call some things non-mental disorders for political rather