A final reminder.
When you drop the nouns, the problem disappears. I am a broken person is a life sentence. My system is currently spinning is just the weather.
The verbs will not stop. The scanning, the bracing, the drifting — they will happen for the rest of your life. The relief is not in stopping the motion. The relief is in finally having the words to describe it.
A verb that knows it is a verb is flexible. A verb that thinks it is an identity is rigid. The difference is not in the content of the motion. It is in the relationship to the content.
You are not the scanning. You are the one who notices the scanning.
You are not the masking. You are the one who feels the mask.
You are not the fixing. You are the one who can put down the tools.
The verbs never stop. But a verb is just a verb. It describes the weather. And the weather changes.
The Verb Lexicon is a companion to Knowing Patterns: An Epistemology for People Tired of Being Fixed, a free ebook distributed without profit or capture.
This book contains zero advice. It is a dictionary of verbs — the ones we are missing, the ones we mistake for people, the ones we need to describe the patterns that were never disorders and never identities. Just motions. Just weather.
If you paid for this book, ask for your money back.
Rowan Brad Quni-Gudzinas
April 2026