The social construction of illness with all its research sounds very appealing but also a bit complicated when it comes to what is truly labeled an illness. Medicalizing and demedicalizing can be quite interesting when you look a little further into these topics. One can assume that any condition out there is in some way considered to be medical, what we didn’t know is that there have been quite a few diagnoses that have actually been demedicalized by health professionals. In order for a diagnosis to be considered medicalized it must meet five stages. First, the definition of the behavior must be deviant. Second, it is brought to light in a medical journal or conference. Third, groups are leaning toward or shying away from the incorporation
