Well. I know some people back home who are bearing up under extremely painful circumstances. Things that have been haunting them their entire lives. Things that upended their lives in moments and still cause suffering. They carry on, arrange and rearrange the burden so it doesn't get in the way. But--

[She stops herself, grasping for a way to articulate this. With Hatori, she had seen the difference between his happiness and the resigned existence he was accepting, even after a distance of two years.

With Jason, it seems to be more him throwing as much fuel into the fires as he could. Maybe not caring if he got burned in the process.]

It's its own weight. And if too much gets added, or something in the stack shifts, people get crushed.