Lives are built around a series of compromises with illness. Everything is a calculated decision to avoid the catastrophe that is the next relapse, the next exacerbation, the next medicine not working. This makes sense, when you think everything's going to fall apart the next minute, because that's happened to you throughout your entire life. Then, a treatment comes along, like this fMRI guided treatment that works all at once. And now, all of a sudden, not only is your depression over, but so is the story you told yourself about that depression.