collapse of the old society

Once you do pretty much any strength training (or just heavy lifting) at all, BMI loses its value pretty quickly. It's a rough indicator.

So it seems like there's just an exception in the few gymrat type folks out there and athletes. Still seems like a small exception group compared to the general population. That aside, the bit about certain people being healthier while bigger/smaller seems anecdotal and unscientific afaik.

Most people check a good number of boxes on a good number of those checklists.

I don't think most people would check many boxes for schizophrenia or gender dysphoria or even ADHD, though as always the real test is whether the meds help.

As for GAD or something more unspecific it's really more about whether it impacts their life negatively or not which is a presumption under which those checklists are meant to be taken.

Still, I've never heard of someone checking off all the boxes while self-diagnosing and then going on to not be legitimately diagnosed outside of a few cases where supposed professionals usually apply some discrimination based on immutable characteristics.

Almost every individual checkbox is "checked" or not based on the doctor's subjective evaluation.

Yeah this kind of just demonstrates that the doctor's part of the equation is utter bullshit