Skydiving is jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

Then, after incomputable years, he was no longer man but a man-like beast, roving in forests of giant fern and calamite, or building an uncouth nest in the boughs of mighty cycads.

The soft peat was springy under her feet.

Rather, I am calling attention to the self-imaging challenges of these experiences and to the implications of a process that seems first to deviantize the women's previous actions and then to medicalize this newfound deviance as the illness codependency (Asher and Brissett 1988).