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Originally Posted by amandalouise
you can find out if your mental disorders are the kind that are going to fade and go away by talking to your treatment professionals. they can look at your history, family background, and other aspects of your mental disorders and give you an approximate idea. they cant tell you a guarantee that your mental disorders will go away or not because each person is different but they can take an educated guess. like doctors do when predicting approximate genetic mental and medical problems when a person is pregnant based on family history and the persons own mental and medical history.
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They do not label because they have not the knowledge to forsee whether it will worsen or improve. This was one of the first things I learned as a therapist. Fading is not out growing, healing is not outgrowing it is actually healing. It is not possible to outgrow mental illness. Syndromes however are a different class of problem and is not considered an illness. Syndromes have a known cause which is possible to not just go into remission but to right itself. Again this is not outgrowing.
With all due respect, children who show symptoms of depression are many times more likely to develop teen or adult onset depression or any other mental illness, in particular anxiety and depression. Childhood schizophrenia does not abate completely and there are no numbers to show that it does. Having worked extensively with children in my supervised licensing hours we were schooled in answering questions asked by parents in regard to if their child would ever get better and be free of the illness. If an educated guess were formed and then turned out to be incorrect the possibility of being sued by the parents is very high.
In particular regard to asking a therpaist to look at everything including "they can take an educated guess" this is guesswork only and not proof that a mental illness will go away. Looking at background and family history does not indicate one way or another what might happen. This leaves the door open to litigation and no therapist is going to tread the water in a minefield; this was one of the areas covered in "Establishing A Practice".