At least that's how my nervous system has always worked. I can take pain physically much more readily than I can take psychological pain.
I can think of so many times but at the moment an event in front of the White House, there was a recognized member of the activist Club, my disrespectful name for the Cadre, late at night, standing 6 in away from a secret service agent on duty, berating, screaming at this individual in their face.
I have a zero tolerance for abuse, of me, and more importantly of anyone else.
10 years ago, Within moments I was across the wide Street putting myself in between the secret service agent and facing