I am physically and emotionally connected with perfect healing and restoration.

Long illness makes people weep at adverts. Also snap at whoever has been kindest, and feel nothing at all on the day the good news finally arrives.

That is not a separate problem running alongside the physical one. Inflammation, broken sleep, medication, fear and a year of small humiliations all land in the same nervous system.

The emotional part is a symptom with the same standing as any other. It is worth reporting rather than apologising for.