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Is Mental Illness Permanent? What Recovery Really Looks Like
One of the most painful questions people ask after a diagnosis is also one of the hardest to answer cleanly: is mental illness permanent? Sometimes the person asking is newly diagnosed and frightened. Sometimes it is a parent wondering what happens if their son or daughter never seems fully "back." Sometimes it is a spouse standing in the kitchen after another difficult night, asking privately what happens if treatment helps, but life never quite returns to what it was.
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