Sublime

you may find that the gratification of finding acceptance for parts of yourself that were formerly suppressed is gradually and steadily replacing your need for your habits.

Resentment mounts as the previously-healthy partner finds themselves doing and saying things they abhor.

This may be because there is only a small effect in most people, or because the results are good but only in a few. Being a scientist, I’m bound by methods which have a solid evidence base, either from research or from wide clinical experience.

From the earliest days of my medical career I’d held a deep, intuitive feeling, almost a sympathetic pain for patients whose illnesses made them unrecognizable, sometimes even to themselves. Perhaps because I’d experienced my own identity as fragile, my old fear of not having a handwriting, I saw myself in these patients.

An episode of serious physical illness leaves you feeling vulnerable, fearful and hyper-vigilant.

David Barlow. He was (and still is) one of the premiere anxiety researchers on the planet.