Medicine has had infinite opportunities to turn this lifelong problem into a thing of the past. It's only lifelong because they aren't doing anything about it. So if some professionals are offended by this, they can simply work at actually improving illness outcomes, rather than playing with definitions and restricting people arbitrarily.
It absolutely does not have to be lifelong. We don't know how to treat it yet but it's beyond any possible doubt that this is treatable. This is the entire point of keeping accurate records of health problems, it provides the incentives to work on them. All that decades of covering it up have achieved is increase the misery while increasing the costs.
Serious people don't hide problems. They confront them, work on them and ultimately solve them.
It absolutely does not have to be lifelong. We don't know how to treat it yet but it's beyond any possible doubt that this is treatable. This is the entire point of keeping accurate records of health problems, it provides the incentives to work on them. All that decades of covering it up have achieved is increase the misery while increasing the costs.
Serious people don't hide problems. They confront them, work on them and ultimately solve them.