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I guess that's where I draw a line between "illness" and "disability", at least mentally (i.e. mental illness can get better, mental disability can't). I know some conditions have a very blurred boundary between "curable" and "incurable", depression being a notable example, but my gut feeling is that disabilities are permanent while illnesses either get better or worse (without treatment, I mean, for those that are kept in stasis by treatment).
I've not given this a huge amount of thought, though, so that game of semantics is probably full of holes.