The best defence is, and has always been, the capacity to recognise a situation before it becomes one.
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The Edwardian gentleman walked daily, purposefully, outdoors, and in all weather, and he did not consider this remarkable because it was not.
A journal is not a literary project. It is a place to put things down so you are not carrying them.
The telephone is right there. It has been right there for months. Pick it up.
That thing you have been ignoring for three months will not resolve itself. It is waiting.