"Right then."  He doesn't ask why, as promised.  Later he'll understand, no doubt.  "It's - I wouldn't want to have a breakdown in public, in dath ilan, either, but it's not their way to hide the fact that it occurred in private.  What people see - reaches them in a way they can't control, they can't stop themselves from also feeling distressed if they see you crying, they can't fully control how it changes their opinion of you either.  But you can be abstract about it if you're told afterwards that it happened, so that makes it okay to tell people about things it wouldn't be okay to show them.  It's not about hiding the truth."

"Right then."  He doesn't ask why, as promised.  Later he'll understand, no doubt.  "It's - I wouldn't want to have a breakdown in public, in dath ilan, either, but it's not their way to hide the fact that it occurred in private.  What people see - reaches them in a way they can't control, they can't stop themselves from also feeling distressed if they see you crying, they can't fully control how it changes their opinion of you either.  But you can be abstract about it if you're told afterwards that it happened, so that makes it okay to tell people about things it wouldn't be okay to show them.  It's not about hiding the truth."

"I think I should still live like that.  So go ahead and tell my researchers what happened."