Eli5 If Mental Illnesses can be categorised with certain symptoms then surely they can’t be psychological?

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If mental illnesses can be categorised according to certain symptoms, for example, Schizophrenia and hearing voices, seeing things etc… then surely certain part(s) of the brain are not working correctly / damaged / underdeveloped etc in all sufferers… just as a broken arm for me is the same as someone 3000 miles away. So why do we say that often say Mental Illness’s are Psychological rather Psychiatric?

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Presumably because the same types of thought pattern appear in different people with the condition

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