THERE ARE MANY levels to a crisis. What is sometimes called a crisis is often merely a serious problem. Personally, I would prefer that the word be reserved for when the resolution of the difficult situation signals structural and irreversible change.
By definition, one cannot come out of a crisis and remain more or less the same as one was before. If you could, then your problem was not a crisis.
When we have a natural disaster like a flood or an earthquake, and life goes on the way it did before the event, then it was but a disaster and not ...
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