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Most often assistance is required, in the form of therapies or assisted self-help which promote learning new coping skills.

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Hi Pachy, I don't think that a person is healed all the way if they are still using coping skills. Coping skills are good to use on your way to getting better, however. I agree with a lot of what you said but I see it as development. We are all supposed to be supported in our development (while we are children) and everyone will need different helps and supports because we are all unique. If no one is paying attention to what we need while we are developing there will be dysfunctional development. (Or if others are actively disturbing our development with abuse.) We get better when we examine what went wrong with our development, throw out the bad development and replace it with healthy development.