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Not always, sometimes treatment is used to reduce the severity of symptoms and allow for better functioning as is the case with gender dysphoria.
In the case of depression. you may still have depression after getting treatment but the treatment would be a success if it helps you deal with it and helps you function in your daily existence more effectively.
okay, let's use your example, with depression you are receiving psychiatric medications, and psychological therapy, and your treatment is administered by psychologists and psychiatrists (sometimes by PCP's if you live in the sticks), and you don't go outside of those areas of practice. With gender identity, when psychological and psychiatric treatments "fail," you leave those areas of practice and undergo a surgical procedure and/or are treated by a urologist and/or endocrinologist for hormone therapy. So, therefore you are no longer being treated for a mental disorder anymore than a man who is taking TRT is being treated for a mental disorder when he is undergoing hormone therapy.