Do you believe mental illness, alcoholism, obesity, and homosexuality are real diseases?

Question

Do you believe mental illness, alcoholism, obesity, and homosexuality are real diseases?
Are they real diseases, as doctors and those afflicted believe, or are they simply life style decisions? Please answer yes or no no quotyes and noquot answers please. Thank you.

Answer

Some mental illnesses are real.brAlcoholism is classed as one, but a case could be made that it is a symptom, rather than a disease. In most cases, teh same about obesity, although there are diseases which can lead to it.brPossibly the same with homosexuality, although some consider it a choice.brbrOne mans opinion. I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV...