222. Suzanne O’Sullivan on psychosomatic disorders and other mystery illnesses
The Michael Shermer Show
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Is There a Difference Between Normal and Developmentally Disabled?
Psychologist stephen pinker calls this the euphemism treadmill. And we just keep changing the labels because the words become pajorative. People's desperate search for s makes us more likely to over diagnose, he says. The consequence is that we are increasingly sort of drawing people into medical labels.
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