@shoshin During my injury and for a good year after surgery there was a lot of pain. Ultimately as you suggest that was quite crushing for my morale. I havent had any noticable pain now in many months and that is wonderful and my mobility is close to where it was (though i need to strengthen it with exercise and that is challenging since i am very limited in that regard by the injury)... but no no pain anymore.

That said even though the pain is behind me the stress from that expeiernce certainly accumulated and since i have yet to have a vacation since the ordeal started it may just be that i havent really truly recovered from the mental fallout.

It is kinda like being tortured for 2 years (and having doctors calling you a drug addict for begging for pain pills they wont give you) and then even when the torture is gone your not going to instantly recover mentally.