Hi there... yeah, it really can get better. I very recently met up with some old friends whom I haven't seen for many years. They stayed in therapy and worked hard on their issues, while I opted out for some years and did my best to get on with living.
If I had stayed in T, maybe I would be where they are now... which is at a very peaceful, integrated and content place in their lives. Both of them experienced extreme and long term abuse, and now they say their histories are just that - a part of their history. Not part of their present. A part of who they are and where they came from, a part of their strength, their compassion for others, and their desire to protect.... but otherwise it is just a part of their life story. They are no longer traumatised nor dominated by their respective pasts.

So yeah... I honestly believe that with years of ongoing work the trauma can be overcome.