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Coming from a background in biology, I would be more comfortable saying all mental states, whether or not dubbed "disorderd" by a culture or who/whatever else, are biologically describable, rather than necessarily based (not to deny the idea that some cases may be more influenced by biology than other/outside factors). And on that note, I like at least part of the quotation from the NIMH "...to further discovery in the evolving science of brain, behavior, and experience", which would seem to promote a more open-ended definition of mental illness/health/phenomena/whatever.