(No.1) Discomfort is a remedy?

This is about pain as a prescription (aka how the desire to feel normal again can forge a new normal with a more comfortable baseline)

Rain had been screaming (falling) on the tent all night, but I didn’t fully feel the dread until 11 am when I couldn’t put it off any longer. I was confronted with the very real reality that, sooner or later, I’d have to go outside.