“Each new challenge,” Dr. Crabtree comments, “brings with it another destabilization and potential loss. And so as you get ‘better,’ there’s an ongoing need for more support, not less.” We all nod at this. It’s so very true. Success and progress would seem to be a good thing, but they can rip the ground away. This takes many forms: being discharged from a program; losing the empathy of others because they now believe we should be over it; and even—or maybe especially—invalidating and berating ourselves because we insist that we should be cured.
