She dips her chin, gives a slight nod. "Yes, you are correct. I met a man on my travels. He has recently been released from a long confinement. And in all my studies, I have never read anything about -- how to -- I do not know how to help him. Every bite of food seems to bear an impossible weight for him. It's as if he feels he does not deserve to be alive. And yet, he is."

Well, for certain values of alive, anyway.

"I am grateful for any counsel you might have to give."