Abby, thank you for what you wrote. To say it made me think would be an understatement. Maybe this innate quality you see explains why everyone at work always comes to me to talk about things.........I never seek them out, but they come to me instead of my supervisor.

I hope you're right - it feels like the inner me is barricaded in a windowless, airless room and is slowly dying. I can't help her because I don't have the key.

I appreciate your response more than you know. Thank you again.

Mary Alice