> Why not? Just about every other medical treatment require far greater standards of evidence than just a subjective feeling. For example there seems to be wide consensus in medicine that those with body dysmorphic disorder are to be denied amputation of healthy limbs.
I'm not talking about the medical treatment.
My question was why do you believe those people need an external frame of reference to know whether those feelings are correct or not?
You implied they do, but haven't explained why.
>> Perhaps it is like the feeling that you're hungry
> To which the equivalent conditions would be the various eating disorders,
that statement assumes your position on the issue in question. Is it like an eating disorder or not?
> And unless there is a disorder like this, it's easy enough to gain a frame of reference, we all know what it's like to be hungry vs. not hungry.
I can't parse the meaning of this sentence.