It was suffocating, emotionally as well as physically.
It was suffocating and with every surah I memorized, I felt more stifled.
It was suffocating, made worse by the fact that some journalists had disappeared during the early part of the invasion from their hotel rooms at the Palestine.
Although I was in fact breathing and getting oxygen, my brain was no longer made aware of it, so it communicated to my body that it was suffocating, triggering an unremitting fight/flight response ― a constant state of alert, as if an unseen danger was always imminent.
Music venues, studio spaces, theatres and cinemas are all included under this banner, and they all suffer when it is suffocated.
It's vast, it's life-altering, it's suffocating, and its name is Depression.
They also put a plastic bag over my head and wouldn't take it off until I was suffocating".
They didn't understand that it was because I was suffocating that I had tears in my eyes; they thought I was crying.
