Titbits Three: Standing on your own two feet

Persian women recently immigrated into the United States often go the doctor to complain about knee aches. A doctor, familiar with such cases and the patients' culture, gives them an anti-depressant. After about 4 weeks the patients are perfectly fine. To the bewildered German colleague this doctor explained that the women don't feel ready to stand on their own two feet in their new environment; their psychological disposition is physically expressed in 'jerky' knees.

Thank god for radio. That story got me.