This so called "recovery" is something like this in my theory:
You look into it and have to break everything you used to know, and how you used to see yourself.
Then you have to pick up the pieces, but from time to time, you relapse, as in, cut yourself on some sharp pieces. Since you can't return to being a mirror, you get lost, not knowing what to do with the glass that you've collected. You then recycle the glass, but since you can't do that on your own, you ask for help, or get help. Then the glass becomes a bottle.
You think about what to do with the new glass object, and you start to work on a model boat, something creative and new.
You put the boat in the bottle and look at it. You see something different in the glass, something you made instead of the anxiety or depression you once saw.
Or at least...
That's a best case scenario. I'm not sure if that's how it works. For the time being, I'm half way though the recycling process, just thinking what the glass might be used as.
Like thinking of the future, wanting a happily ever after for the first time...