Can Mental Illness Be Cured?

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Most disorders both mental and physical are managed and not cured. In medicine we think of cure as a total reversal of an illness to the point where there's no evidence of it and it does not return. the closest we get to this scenario is fixing a broken limb. Or treating a vitamin deficiency by giving a vitamin supplement. In this video, I discuss the main mental illnesses that tend to come and go over the course of your life over time and talk about how they tend to look over time. These main illnesses are major depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and schizophrenia. The mood disorders like major depression and bipolar disorder, are recurring illnesses where you have episodes that last a while and then resolve. Some people who can have chronic symptoms, but the classic picture is that you have discrete episodes that resolve and return. You have periods in between with either very few of symptoms or no symptoms. When your symptoms go away we call it a remission. When your symptoms return we call it a relapse. So both depression and bipolar disorder are relapsing and remitting illnesses. Anxiety disorders tend to behave a little bit differently. Rather than being episodic, they tend to come and go in intensity over time. Kind of like a wave that crests and then recedes. So there can be periods of your life where your anxiety can feel unmanageable and you may seek treatment for it. And then there can be periods of time wh

Published 2019-09-04 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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