month off sick...

[Geckos48]

With a broken leg/flu/

Could it be a matter of they dont know quite what to say?

But I take your point,food for thought.

I thinks its about disbelief, that might just be my paranoia but given that a woman at my work had 2 months off for a hysterectamy and nobody was worried about speaking to her about it, I would say its part of the endless sigma of mental health

They cant see it, is part of the problem.
Someone I know tends to get physical illnesses that other people cant see. Then she feels she has to justify herself in some way. When she has spots or a illness that is visible, she is positively gleeful [if it will clear up at some point, obviously].