Old wounds can heal up pretty good though if we keep working on it. I saw myself heal in layers. I am on probably my 4th or 5th layer of self esteem work. The first layer of healing was hard but very, very therapeutic. It got me to a certain point. The next layer of healing took me further and so on and so forth. I am much, much, much better than I used to be! My level of functioning now is so far from where I started.