perhaps you understand how a lively mind can be as much of a burden as it is a gift. Mine tends to fixate on scenarios – memories – difficulties – and then embellish them with such detail that I feel as though calamities have actually happened, and I the cause of them. Even stopping in briefly for a mandatory appearance at the dinner parties our parents used to host when I was a young woman in my early twenties made me sick to my stomach, and I would spend days afterwards replaying and rewriting each word in my head until I was certain that I behaved abominably to everyone I encountered and
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