Jeannette Daniel’s Reviews > When Breath Becomes Air > Status Update

Learned about an interesting phenomenon known as a “psychogenic” syndrome, a severe version of the swoon some experience after hearing bad news.

He writes so beautifully about a 2am trek he did. It felt like I was standing there at the peak with them and because I had done some 2am treks previously, he took the words out of my mouth, describing the nature.