For ‘crucial considerations’ interpreted as ‘problems to be gotten over’, perhaps the box could be filled with ‘avoiding scary thoughts’? Like, it turns out you have to rebuild your life around this problem—you can’t treat it as a problem to be solved, because at some point you’ll notice your work on it is making zero progress. And so rather than change your entire life+work+social structure, you ignore it and pretend it’s a problem to be gotten over.
For ‘crucial considerations’ interpreted as ‘problems to be gotten over’, perhaps the box could be filled with ‘avoiding scary thoughts’? Like, it turns out you have to rebuild your life around this problem—you can’t treat it as a problem to be solved, because at some point you’ll notice your work on it is making zero progress. And so rather than change your entire life+work+social structure, you ignore it and pretend it’s a problem to be gotten over.