mue 26 wrote:having one myself I have done enough research to answer with certainty that a lot of mental illnesses are for life and that's the first thing you need to accept if you want to learn to live with it and live happily
Yeah fair enough, I can respect that viewpoint if you find that it's helpful for you, and I certainly hear it a lot as it's the conventional line. But at the same time, if I'm honest, I know it's not true. It may not possible through conventional means, but I know it is possible to completely change.
I know that accepting your current circumstance is important, but I personally don't agree that anyone with severe OCD for example, should be told "you will have this condition for life, and will never fully rid yourself of it, you must accept this to be happy". I don't agree with it for two reasons: 1. anyone who tells you that is not being truthful, it's not a certainty by any means, and 2. I don't think it's impossible to be happy with your current situation yet still strive to better yourself.
but that would lead them in the wrong way, to "cure" from a mental illness you need to learn to have complete control over it, and that's why its important that the patient understands that it will always be there but he has the strength over it, you see the potential of OCD will be there as long as the person has negative thoughts, the same goes for skizophrenia, this is why these are impossible to completely cure because they are directly attached to human nature, so either you drug the fuck out of the guy so he is unable to have these thoughts or you teach him how to gain control over his emotions so he can block it half way through