Pain is weakness leaving the body.
Trauma is fear co-opting the mind.
Despair is anger taking the upper gastrointestinal tract hostage at gunpoint.
Ambivalence is agitation tapping you on one shoulder and then sneaking in through the opposite ear—with a slap on the head, saying, “Look at the grouse! Look at the grouse! Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk! “


