Hello, @johnnysneakers. You've introduced a whole new dimension to the meaning of "retreating from life." When I wrote my kick-off post using that phrase, I had been thinking only about "big picture" events, like get-togethers with friends, attending community meetings, doing some long-distance travel. You mention nail clipping. That has me thinking: nail clipping can be thought of as an "event," too. Considerations of personal hygiene can further call to mind ways in which our PN symptoms might cause us to "retreat from life (as we once lived it). It wasn't my PN, but a bad sepsis infection, that left me bed-ridden in a rehab facility for a number of weeks. Although I'm now recovered from the infection, I haven't forgotten the near totality of my helplessness while I was in that rehab facility. I had had no choice but to retreat from life (as I might have wished I could live it). So, @johnnysneakers, you've me see a whole other way in which our PN symptoms can urge––if not downright demand––that we "retreat from life (the life we once lived). // I wishe you a good, good day! ––Ray (@ray666)