Gout

Gout is read through retained emotion that should have been let go - in this framework the body's fluids carry the emotions, and the build-up reflects feelings dammed up rather than released. The pattern is needing one's own space and being unable to keep others from invading it, then swallowing the frustration: disappointments, a powerlessness to assert one's limits, an intolerance kept quiet because one wants to be the "good" one and avoid judgement or reprimand. Held in, it overflows and settles, often in the joints of the foot. The short explanation's "severe lack of fluidity with respect to understanding" is that stuck, unexpressed emotional charge. Relief is described as voicing one's limits and frustrations and letting the held emotion flow rather than crystallise.

Example from the findings: gout is read as an overflow of frustration one stays silent about in order to remain the agreeable one.