Hanging on in Quiet Desperation is the English Way ...

I've been doing the English thing - hanging on in quiet desperation - most of the night. Somehow my mind is doing an extra recursion on itself that brings back everything just said in a sneering and derisive fashion.

I've been thinking seriously of taking a vow of silence to prevent it ...

The worst is that it gives a good reason for the isolating always hiding behind every corner for me. Isolating for its own sake = bad, but what about isolating to prevent something worse?