Infected Sores

A festering sore is read as a wound that will not close because something inside keeps fermenting it - held anger, hurt or irritation (the suppuration being read as one's emotions) collecting at one's boundary with the world rather than clearing. It is read as a "festering" way of thinking about life: a grievance turned over and over until it poisons the surface. The short explanation's "wrong thinking in terms of life" sits in that fermenting, unhealed outlook. Relief is described as clearing the held hurt and reframing the grievance, so the wound - and the thinking behind it - can finally heal.

Example from the findings: the festering sore is read as held hurt fermenting at one's surface - a grievance turned over until it poisons.