Posted by lovelorn on December 14, 2007, at 13:32:09
In reply to Re: Healing versus Curing » lovelorn, posted by seldomseen on December 14, 2007, at 6:42:56
> I find myself using the word recovery when talking about my therapy - as though I am trying to get back something that was lost.
This almost sounds like cure to me or, as my T said, reversing. The fact is that something was lost that wouldn't have otherwise been lost if the trauma hadn't occurred.
I like the idea of replacement - pain and loss has to be replaced by something, right which to me means replaced by healing and some other comfort, whether self-administered or from outside/someone or something else to help replace the loss. A kind of compensation, though it can never match or actually replace what was lost.
>Fortunately, I've been remitting more than relapsing as of late.
That is good to read, I hope it continues for you.
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