I definitely believe you can recover as a Codie. I also think it's pretty much the same for us as it is for the addicts in our lives - meaning that it isn't something that you start & finish, but an ongoing process of Recovery that stays with us over the rest of our lifetimes.
I am a completely different person now than I was 5 years ago at the beginning of this nightmare:
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...covery-me.html http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/...uper-long.html