“I just want to take some time so things go back to normal.”
"You will not get better."
“Can I take medicine?”
“Pills can negate the syndromes, but you will forever be dependent on them, and you will not get better.”
“…”
“If you don’t want to feel this way anymore, you need help to retrain how your brain reacts to things. The past has happened, nothing can take that away. What can change is your relations to the present and future. You will always have the mental scars, but at least the open wounds will heal.”
-A 2011 conversation with a doctor as recalled to the best of my memory.
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