Abstract
If a patient’s illness is defined as “chronic”, it should only mean that the illness has been afflicting the patient for a long period of time. The word chronic, however, has come to suggest that the illness is incurable. Lay people, but also people in the medical professions, now habitually use it when the illness is regarded as inveterate and permanent and when restitution to full health is no longer held to be possible. Examples from somatic medicine are chronic rheumatoid arthritis and chronic renal failure, and from psychiatry chronic brain disorder and chronic schizophrenia.
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Theander, S. (1992). Chronicity in Anorexia Nervosa: Results from the Swedish Long-Term Study. In: Herzog, W., Deter, HC., Vandereycken, W. (eds) The Course of Eating Disorders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76634-3_15
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