Hello everyone,

I have never heard of or known anyone who has grown into or out of a mental illness. I agree with remission and was in that for a number of years myself. The physical growth of the brain does not create mental illness, it is the chemical and physiological makeup that causes mental illness and some developmental disability. Traumatic Brain Injury can cause mental illness which sends the brain into emergency mode to try to maintain some control or respond to the injury, but that is not growth connected.

Physioligically one part of the brain may be more active or less active than another and this can lead to over or underactivity in that part of the brain; for instance as is physically shown by the Serotonin Excretion and Re-uptake which causes problems if out of sync with what the brain needs to keep depression at bay.

It is possible to out grow neurological symptoms (which are not mental illness symptoms), in syndromes such as Tourettes, but it is also possible that the symptoms can intesify throughout the teenage years and into the 20's. After that times it is possible for symptoms to reduce markedly. But the symptoms of mental illness that can accompany Tourettes Syndrome are rarely influenced by growth or stunted growth.

Hope this helps and is clear enough, I do get tangled in my words, their intention and the way they end up on the page at times,

Rhiannon

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