I'm really, really appreciative of all these added dimensions in your protracted comments, which go a long way to helping me (and us all) reconcile ourselves with this desperate challenge in the context of the rest of our species and the world.
AF is tough by itself to live with, never mind people being mistrusting, unsupportive and downright opposed from different angles.
Having a particularly fierce form of catabolic AF has demonstrated to me the very darkest side of being alive and I'm surprised that I am somehow still persisting.