I don't think there really is a timeline and I don't think you have completely erase, in my case, 17 years of your life! You learn to live with it better and for some that's a few years and some longer. There's no right or wrong. If years from now you're still suffering like it happened yesterday, are unable to form any new R's (although you want to) then that's a concern but right now I think we all get way too carried away with our feeling of the moment, blowing it's significance way out of proportion. I guess we should feel, accept that feeling and let it go until the next time it pops up. Hopefully, as life gets better those thoughts pop up less and less.
