I figured it out: I've been passing through EKR's Five Stages of Grief in response to my disease; problem is, I may have been doing it wrong. After ~25 years of Denial, I have finally passed into Anger; yet I have been cycling in and out of Depression, the fourth stage, all this time. Is my grief disqualified under EKR's standard? Do I need to go back and start in Denial all over again? That would certainly make me Angry.