Where an employee's psychiatric injury is temporally proximate to a workplace event but the trial judge finds the true cause was the employee's realisation of the consequences of a non-compensable physical injury, that finding will be upheld on appeal if supported by evidence, even where the medical evidence is equivocal. The distinction between a reaction to a workplace request and a reaction to the consequences of a pre-existing physical condition is a fine but legally significant one in workers' compensation causation analysis.
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