Domestic Battery - 1st Offense/Misdemeanor

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This is obviously NOT true. Even the APA that eschews the words "mental illness" in favor of disorder and disability terms these mental illnesses. The National Institutes of Mental Health and others like the Mayo Clinic pretty much start the definition of these terms with "this is a mental illness in which..."

Of course, it's entirely spurious to the legal topics at hand.

There is a distinct difference between a disease and a disorder. Depression and bi-polar are disorders, not diseases.