41 In his evidence, Dr Sale deferred to the opinion of Dr van der Linden with respect to the existence of depression during the time the respondent was the latter's patient. However, given the learned trial judge's acceptance of Dr Sale's opinion over that of Dr van der Linden with respect to the issue of whether depression was episodic or chronic, it follows that the removal of external stressors would, more likely than not, alleviate the symptoms of depression. The Comcare payments did not resume until the end of November 1997. The trial, itself no doubt a stressor, started on 1 September 1998. Although Mr Read correctly submitted that there was no evidence of any stressor in the respondent's life after the Comcare payments resumed, the only conclusion reasonably open to the learned trial judge was that from the end of 1995 until the end of 1997, the respondent's psychological state, coupled with her physical disabilities, effectively destroyed her earning capacity. Further, it would be unreasonable to proceed upon the basis that immediately upon the resumption of payments, the earning capacity returned, particularly with the stress of trial on the horizon. In the context of stress, it is relevant to note that at the same time as Comcare resumed making weekly payments, it claimed back from the respondent, $92,134.52 said to be overpayments made to March 1996, less $20,809.62 being the amount not paid between the date the decision to resume payments was made in April 1997 and the implementation of that decision in November that year.