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 FEELING REGIONS — named territories of the emotional map ("this is
 where I go when I'm scared but excited"), and knowing your way around
 your own regions is what self-knowledge actually is: an internal
-geography, surveyed by living, revisable as you change.
+    geography, surveyed by living, revisable as you change.
+    THE QUARANTINE-vs-INTEGRATION DISCRIMINATION: nothing stays
+    isolated — soloing shit is how graphs go sick — but some things
+    must be held apart before weaving in. The test is categorical:
+    QUARANTINE is for CLAIMS of uncertain truth — it is epistemic,
+    temporary, and directional (held apart UNTIL grounded, then woven).
+    ISOLATION-BECAUSE-PAINFUL is never right — experiences and feelings
+    always deserve integration, and a feeling-node walled off by
+    avoidance is the trauma signature, treated by gentle consolidation
+    (dreaming, small wins), never by permanent separation.
+    Short version: quarantine protects the graph from LIES;
+    integration heals the graph of PAIN. Confusing them fails in both
+    directions — poison woven in freely, or wounds walled off forever.
 
 **Loneliness — the first other-requiring drive.** Connection axis:
 desired resonance minus actual resonance, integrated over time.