You come back to the world, healed and sane. Ready to be of value to humanity. Now your true research into the Great Alarm can begin. But everyone looks at you strange and wrong. They saw you using Cheerios to find your mind again. You did a lot of that work in public, out of necessity of course.
They couldn't understand. But they did see. And now there's something between you and everyone else in town, something dense and hard to pass.
How can you make them see that you're better? How can you make them see past the apparent absurdity of somebody finding the mind they'd lost by meditating on Cheerios in crowded public places. You need to pour all of your energy into researching the Great Alarm, but not as a pariah. What can you do to rejoin society now that you are healed.