If your anger is the result of your sadness or if your sadness is result of your anger , you are undoubtedly suffering from disorientation.

Outside the hospital, I squinted in the harsh morning sunlight. I could hear birds chirping in the tree, but even though I searched for them, they remained hidden from me.

With the sensation that he was passing through the Looking-Glass, Max stared at his father as if he had never seen him before—simultaneously impressed and unnerved at the thought that, after all these years, he...

I wasn’t sure what was going on or what time it was or where I was or even, for that matter, who I was … but my gut told me something was terribly wrong.

Rapid change, accommodating it can be one of the great human capacities. But living through it can be the stuff of stress and often suffering.