Are Behavioral Disorders curable?
Affective disorder has a favorable outcome and is considered to be eminently treatable.Schizophrenia was earlier considered to have a bleak outcome. But with advances in medicine and availability of newer. more specific medicines, it is, today, possible for many people to recover fully Schizophrenia. In our own practice, there are quite a few people who had crossed the border, but were restored to their former self with medication though, of course having to continue on maintenance doses of medication. Some of them have become good friends. Most people with a mental illness recover quickly with appropriate treatment, and the majority do not need hospital care, or have only brief admissions. Treatment discoveries of recent decades have removed the need for isolation and confinement as was common in the past. There are a small number of people with a mental illness, less than 0.01% of the population, who are at risk and need hospital care, sometimes against their will. It is important to
