Whoa, I am very sorry to hear this, but I'm fascinated by your analysis of what happened, and glad to see that you are already almost back to normal. (There are still some tiny changes in your writing style, it flows a little less smoothly, but I'm a detail freak.)

Regarding your ending paragraph, I'm believing that we as a society should have taken on the task of countering the actions of psychopaths (which includes a lot of the deliberate mendacity we see today) generations ago. If there are future historians, they will say that we should have taken up Mendaciology in the previous century if we wanted to survive...