hyperventilation, fainting, depression, panic, sleeplessness, or bleeding ulcers; a feeling of being absolutely overwhelmed, beaten down, defeated; the desperate, often frantic, need for rescue or relief (“You gotta help me!”); and a general shutdown of abilities when all else is jettisoned to focus on the crisis. At times the symptoms become the crisis, such as when a desperate person attempts suicide as one way to “make the hurting stop.” Then all attention obviously is focused on the symptom.