I am not a fainter. I am a panicker who will lash out. I, too, lie down, because it’s easier to self-hypnotise that way, and harder to get the leverage to hurt someone.
Basically, they’re the ones who tell me to make a fist. I am the one requesting to lie down so that fist doesn’t end up somewhere we’ll both regret. But keeping me talking is antithetical to the process, so I also have to ask that they don’t, beyond what’s necessary.
