I want to underscore the fact that there is no consensus in our field about how we define “irremediable mental illness”. The fact that there are different opinions, and strong different opinions, speaks to the fact that there is no consensus. That's what the CCA, after a month of deliberations, concluded.
I think the point I was making in my presentation was that a finding of irremediable mental illness needs to be based on scientific evidence. When we talk about some of the most severe conditions in mental illnesses, like psychotic illness, and when long-term studies show that up to 30% of people go into recovery in the long term from these conditions, that's not a minority. That tells us about the weakness now of even predicting the trajectory at the individual level.