Alice's phases of knowing when to stop.

Phase I: You have no idea what is going on and suddenly finding yourself unable to walk/talk/move etc. with no warning that this is going to happen.

Phase II: you gradually realize that there is some vague connection between what you do and those unpredictable episodes.

Phase III: you learn to recognize early subtle warning signs and learn to stop on time, although you are not a pro and have a lot of times in which you do more than you should or stop when you could still do more.

Phase IV: It becomes second nature for you to stop on time, so you have only rare times in which you crash unpredictably, but you feel that you could do more.

Phase V: you become tired of always monitoring yourself and you push yourself more than you should, even though you know there is going to be a price. The price is many times unpredictable.

Phase VI: you can almost always predict the price you will pay for what you do. You choose what is important enough and what is not. You probably have the optimal control over this "crazy" illness.