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Can mental illness last forever?
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Duration: Usually if your mental illness it depends if it short onset or chronic. Also does it relapse after starting meds. If you had adequate treatment responded and were in remission for significant period of ime and then you had relapsed, then it is safest to take the medication lifelong and monitor side effect.
Answered 2/10/2016
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