Marginal survival skills: coping but still vulnerable
Rudimentary power and control: short-lived security
Passable objectivity: growing ability to "stop and think"
Slow progress altering anger into functional tolerance
Capable of basic daily organization and effective effort
Interrelates and cooperates with modest efficiency
Slowly evolving respect for and from others: live and let live
Borderline control over dependencies: open to relapse
Operating in real time: present in the here and now
Increasing tolerance of stress and adversity: stops and thinks
Month-to-month range of stability/safety: "just making it"
Fragile but growing mental and emotional balance
Budding recreational capacity and involvement
Significant distancing from anti-social values and behavior
Growing hunger/impatience for expanded quality of life
Slowly diminishing fear and rage: less and less panic attacks
Still returns to anger and war talk as an automatic defense
A developing sense of positive purpose: "in an upward spiral"
Evolving feelings of freedom and belonging: expanding world view
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