One of the differences between labeling an individual with a medical disease or labeling them with a mental illness is that __________.

A mental illness label may be treated as a defining feature of a person, shaping how others see them and how they are described. A medical disease is more often discussed as something a person has rather than something that defines who they are. The other choices make overly broad claims: mental illnesses can have effective treatments, and medical diseases are not necessarily curable.

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