Each time you are thrashed with the pain inflicted by another and self, you are forced to dig deeper into the well of darkness and despair. With each recollection of angst, you tumble further down. You’ve been blamed, shamed, bullied, wronged, perpetually told you are not good enough, labelled ‘ugly’, had your intelligence written off as ‘freakish’, been held by the throat because you dared to stick up for yourself, had your vulnerability twisted, wrung and squeezed for narcissistic pleasure, felt the wrath of jealousy and envy, had one of the world’s deadliest diseases steal a part of your body, held your dying young, faced the ultimate rejection, picked what…