Nowadays, she says, she repeats her instructions, and even conducts a reality check with some patients: she asks them to tell her what they think they're supposed to do.
That is also true of people who, like your columnist, a guest Bartleby, more often suffer from the inverse affliction-having trouble putting things off even if they probably ought to be.
And for that reason, more and more people, he claimed, expected the society and that state to regulate what is and isn't permissible in personal relations.
But you can harness that inexperience to carve out your own path, one that is free of the burden of knowing how things are supposed to be, a path that is defined by its own particular set of reasons.