This is kind of a tricky one for me. I want to get better....but by that, I mainly mean I want to get to a place where I can function in the world without being consumed by anxiety, and I want to be able to behave like a sane, rational, compassionate human when someone near me is sick. I know this level of recovery is attainable because I spent many years therek. I don't think I will ever be "cured", if that means I will happily eat raw steak or let my kids eat eith dirty hands. I am an anxious person and I don't see that changing no matter how much therapy or medicine I take. And isn't that why recovered alcoholics don't drink? Because on some level, even if they are recovered, they are still alcoholics?

As far as your friend goes, though, I hope she will seek help.