... another. Definitions of abnormal behaviour also vary from culture to culture, some cultures will accept and tolerate behaviour which would be considered totally unacceptable by another. Society does not consist of a single homogeneous mass of people, it is divided into many different subcultures, each with its own view of what is normal and what is not. Failure to function adequately can also be defined as abnormal, like maladaptive behaviour and bizarreness. Maladaptive behaviour prevents a person from efficiently satisfying social and occupational roles. Some mental disorders like substance related disorders (drug abuse) are defined in terms of how the use/abuse of the substance produces social and occupational difficulties for example; poor work performance, marital problems etc. Making bizarre claims can also be seen as a failure to function properly if a person claimed that aliens had kidnapped them, it would be quite hard to take them seriously and we would ...

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