Mental illnesses are usually managed rather than cured completely. They can be managed very well so that the negative symptoms of them are minimal but it's not often that someone is 'cured' if it is a serious illness.
If you think of a mental illness as physical in the fact it is an imbalance of chemicals, that needs medication to put it back to the right balance. That's what it is.
Therapy can help alot though.
You mentioned mania so am I right to assume you're manic depressive [bipolar]? If so then it would irrational to try and go it alone without being in the 'system' in some way or another. You at least need a psychiatrist to keep tabs on if you're going one way or another [*cue that song*lol].
But once the right medication regime is found you could if you want consider youself cured. But always be ready knwoing what the signals are in case another episode is on the horizon.
Sorry to have rambled.
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