If someone is diagnosed with depression and anxiety, will they be “mentally ill” forever?

Hi all,

This is my first post on NoFap. A friend of mine has depression/anxiety in his medical history, diagnosed 2016. Google says once you have a mental illnesses it is incurable but can only be managed through medication. What if one day he feels like he doesn’t feel depressed anymore? He has felt significantly better and doesn’t feel a lot of the signs anymore since 1 year now. The only problem is his diagnosis will haunt him for the rest of his life and according to the medical professionals’ articles on Google it is incurable, he will always be officially depressed even if he doesn’t feel that way. This is also a legal problem because if he has a mental illness in his medical record he is classified as mentally ill and can therefore be locked up in a mental hospital if in a doctor’s subjective opinion to other doctors you are a danger to yourself or others. He doesn’t want to live limited by this diagnosis for the rest of his life and just wants to forget about it but it follows him around in his record everywhere and he just wants to live like any other person. What should he do? Should he resign his fate to being mentally ill for the rest of his life because the system diagnosed him as so?

 

He was never locked up I said because he has that in his record he is 200% more likely to be locked up regardless of whether what they say about him is true or not. He stopped taking his antidepressant a year ago and has felt fine ever since. He wants this part of his life to be over so he can finally live a regular life if that’s too much to ask, rather than be treated like a crazy person because of his depression/anxiety diagnosis.