Also, from that episode of This American Life, there's one segment in particular that folks here might find fascinating.
It's about a journalist in Berlin who got poisoned on a trip back to Russia... and who took *forever* to accept that this was what had happened to her. Her reality had forever changed once she became a target, but she wasn't ready to process this right away.
Food for thought. What are we unprepared to accept about what's already changed in our lives?
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/826/unprepared-for-what-has-already-happened/act-one-7
@MLClark I listened to that, it was a great episode.
@MLClark That was a very good episode of TAL!