You'll never be without it...it is part of you....but I feel that you can learn to control the worst part of it for the most part. I do not believe it gets better with age as they often say, but it does get better with circumstances. As your life progresses there are supposedly less "triggers"; a lot of the emotional crap in your life eases up, and with it the more extreme of our issues, plus, as Hungryghost said, your mind learns to cope somewhat on it's own. You still have ups and downs and bad periods but they are tolerable for the most part. What happened to me was my life HAD gotten better for the most part and then BAM I was hit by a number of issues at once and could no longer cope....