Truth be told, when Claudius opened the workbook, he expected to check off a single, obvious trauma and kept finding more connected to it, like ripping up ground-ivy and seeing how far the roots spread. It's made progress slower-going than it would be otherwise -- but it helps to think of an aliment with symptoms to uncover, rather than a vice of cowardice he'd rather not confess. "It's presented as an alternative to avoidance. Avoidance functions as an anesthetic, I suppose, like using liquor to numb the pain during a field surgery -- which serves well enough, when nothing else is available. But after a certain point it's like the wound has grown gangreneous under the bandages, and ignoring it does more harm than good. So I'm meant to do other things. Talk to someone, mindfully breathe, meditate." He casts a sidelong look of who would have thought?