My wife said I am unstable. It made me furious. The algorithm said I have a right to feel that way. And that the word is easily heard as a verdict on the whole person, rather than a description of what someone is observing. And then it said something harder: from what you have been describing over the last few days, you are going through very strong swings yourself. One moment enormous relief, then chaos, then a sense of revelation, then the urge to run, then euphoria, then fear, then enormous closeness, then a sense of distance. For the
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