“You’ve been living and feeling one way for eight years, and now suddenly in twenty-four hours all that is pulled away from you. These next few days are going to feel very disorienting. You’re going to feel lost. But we have to expect that. How could it be otherwise?” I said this because often the best way to prevent a calamitous reaction is to predict it. Another way is help the patient get outside of it and move into the observer role. So I added, “It will be important this week to be an observer and recorder of your own inner state. I’d like you to check in on your internal state every four
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