You're so right about point a and b regarding the oversharing! Hadn't thought about that before, but definitely! I think of that sometimes when I'm talking with the healing angel, who will say something like, "I had a bad night's sleep so I'm not going to work today." And I'm like, okay. I can see not going to work when you're actually ill--staying home when you're ill keeps others from getting sick. But .... sommmmmmetimes maybe you can inconvenience yourself, or put up with a little bit of unpleasantness, for other people's sake (in this case, the other employees, who will be short staffed). (The healing angel's getting better at this as she gets older. And it's funny: the older of my two kids *don't* do this and never have. Hmmm....