When I was talking about the irremediable nature of the illness, I was thinking of three concepts. The first is the natural history of the illness itself. There is no proximity of death or inevitable death associated with mental illness the way there is with some other medical disorders. By natural history, for example, 25% or more of individuals with schizophrenia may recover if they wait long enough, and they may recover completely from schizophrenia.
The second point is that—