Interestingly, in our analyses higher pre-treatment shame–as a central emotion in social anxiety–was substantially related to worse outcome (endstate, remission) bivariately, but in the regression models shame explained only an insignificant portion of variance in addition to pre-treatment social anxiety.

The lucidity of hindsight, on the other hand, tells him, when he reponders all of these events some time later, that it was while he was sitting alone in the Topples Auditorium that the details surrounding his brother's disappearance first floated irretrievably into unreality.

End of, stop sulking Get out, you're walkin' Too bad, I've spoken But when I look at you you're forgiven

My street was clogged with […] a chanting mob of people, some of whom carried signs that said things like Fuck Your Pronouns, Trannyism Is Child Abuse, Sorry about Your Dick, and No Men in Womyn's Spaces.