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Alan, is there any way to use the anger ("all the rage") constructively?

This is what I'm struggling with, too. However, my leg pain comes with standing and walking. I can sit or lie down for a long time. I'm in agony when I have to do errands, like walking around the grocery store, even while leaning on the shopping cart. I can't imagine voluntarily walking; it...

Thank you so much, itmsw. It's very generous of you to respond with such compassion.

Listening to the clip, I remembered when I was 6, and my 2-year-old brother died of leukemia. My mother received a crank phone call--I was standing listening from the doorway--and she cried into the phone, "I buried my son today!" I was devastated by his death, too, and I spent many nights lying...

I just made a connection with something that happened many years ago, when I was in junior high. On the first day of 8th grade, I was nervous about being late to first period, because everyone would stare at me and I'd have to go to the principal's office, etc. etc. My mother was never...

Yesterday I listened to a true crime podcast about a young woman who was abducted from the parking lot of a store. Tonight I left a supermarket behind a guy wearing a Hell's Angels leather jacket. I warily watched him start up his motorcycle, trying to memorize the pattern of blue lights on the...