Posted by lovelorn on December 14, 2007, at 19:54:50
In reply to Healing versus Curing, posted by lovelorn on December 13, 2007, at 18:22:03
Everyone's comments have been helpful as I ponder what healing means to me.
Anyway, I thought I would just post the dictionary meanings of both heal and cure. Interestingly enough I have experienced some cure (recovery/relief) as I continue in therapy and I see that I still have some ways to go in terms of healing. And by the definitions of heal, I believe I am right, and as seldom pointed out too, that there will probably always be a little part that cannot completely heal.
I hope the definitions will be useful to all that are contemplating the question of their psychological, emotional and mental healing.
Heal:
1 a: to make sound or whole <heal a wound> b: to restore to health
2 a: to cause (an undesirable condition) to be overcome : mend <the troubles…had not been forgotten, but they had been healed— William Power> b: to patch up (a breach or division) <heal a breach between friends>
3: to restore to original purity or integrity <healed of sin>
intransitive verb
: to return to a sound stateCure:
1 a: spiritual charge : care b: pastoral charge of a parish
2 a: recovery or relief from a disease b: something (as a drug or treatment) that cures a disease c: a course or period of treatment <take the cure for alcoholism> d: spa 1
3: a complete or permanent solution or remedy <seeking a cure for unemployment>
4: a process or method of curing
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