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Sometimes "normal health/coping" is not possible, or inexorably difficult. PTSD example: http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=ptsd+mdma http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#3... So, you could argue that in some cases it is "shortened," and in many cases for severe trauma, it is not shortened at all. Rather, it opens healing/coping as an actual possibility. Especially for trauma which induces self or extro-destructive behavior, the "long-road" to "normal healing/coping" could be dangerous.