Excellent article here describing the challenges of getting medical help for long covid / ME/CFS, and with even just being believed by family and friends. Certainly fits my experience.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06-16/chi
If you set limits for a scale (e.g. x-axis) in ggplot, how would you like data outside of that range be handled? There is the oob parameter for that and a set of functions to use with it: https://scales.r-lib.org/reference/oob.html