Sally lived a very interesting life. She met lots of people. She positively impacted the lives of many people. She did have lots of emotional ups and downs. Periods of depression and anxiety. Terrible trouble focusing. But she eventually found her groove and achieved great things. By contrast, Susie never helped anyone. Susie never achieved anything. But she was happy almost all of the time.
Andrew drove for a living. He became very distracted when driving. Couldn’t focus, couldn’t concentrate, because lots of the warning lights on the dashboard were going off. He found an excellent solution. He put a blanket over the dashboard and inserted earplugs into his ears.
Bobby was unhappy. He stuck pins in his arms. He felt pain and complained of the pain. Someone gave him a painkiller, and the pain went away. It worked! He could now stab his arm with pins, in fact with needles and knives, but the pain was gone.
Jane would watch a lot of horror films. She couldn’t sleep afterwards; she was so wound up. Her brain was racing, and her muscles were tense, so she would take a sleeping pill and some muscle relaxants. She was pleased to find these solutions, because she did not want to give up her beloved films.
Peter’s fire alarm kept going off. One night, it woke him up, so he got out of bed, battled through the smoke, and hit the alarm with a hammer. The sound halted. He went back to bed.
David had feelings he didn’t like. He also had trouble focusing, sitting still, and concentrating. Someone suggested it might be his poor sleep patterns, his bad diet, his lack of exercise regime, his lack of routine and unplanned days, his unfulfilling work, his laziness and negligence at work, his chaotic home and personal affairs, his philosophy (or lack of), his religion (or lack of), his theology (or lack of), his spirituality (or lack of), his attitudes, his values, his beliefs, his materialism, his secrets, his wrongs towards others he had never addressed, his selfishness, his self-centredness, his hostility, his moralising, his self-righteousness, his impatience, his intolerance, his unkindness, his indulgence of his attack thoughts, his carefully nursed grudges, grievances, plights, and gripes, his controlling and often obnoxious behaviour, his use of pornography, his casual and ever-shifting sexual relations, his preoccupation with news and current affairs, his relentless scrolling and consumption of social media, his divorce from nature, and his lack of any interesting hobbies. He decided, however, it was his brain that was the culprit, so he injected something into it. He felt a great deal better.