My eldest son is mentally ill. I tell people that there is no such thing as a cure; there is health management. We try to manage mental illness and give the safest, highest quality life possible for him and those around him.
Most people find this very hard to understand. Pop culture and tv dramas have a lot to blame. They would have people believe that there is a silver bullet or with the correct diagnosis there's simple and easy cure. One linchpin event in the person's life that caused the illness and it's a simple matter of undoing the damage. That of course is nonsense but that's what people believe. (There might be some severe illnesses that revolve around a single event, but that seems to be very uncommon among my son's peers.)
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My eldest son is mentally ill. I tell people that there is no such thing as a cure; there is health management. We try to manage mental illness and give the safest, highest quality life possible for him and those around him.
Most people find this very hard to understand. Pop culture and tv dramas have a lot to blame. They would have people believe that there is a silver bullet or with the correct diagnosis there's simple and easy cure. One linchpin event in the person's life that caused the illness and it's a simple matter of undoing the damage. That of course is nonsense but that's what people believe. (There might be some severe illnesses that revolve around a single event, but that seems to be very uncommon among my son's peers.)
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