"Sick, lame, or lazy" ... you know that's what folk think, even when they're "nice" and don't straight up say it. (And which of us wouldn't rather straight up?) Let's face it, when you're gung.ho even just thinking and anticipating "shirk" wounds like a hot blade.

Or how about "hyper-vigilance" ... you good enough with words to describe that?
And, of course, at some point we're gonna get into "reactive" and "oppositional", and "combative". Yes, we are, ohhh yes.

And then folk snickering that PTSD stands for "people trying to screw the department" ...
... it's not often an empathetic world.