The potential diagnosis of leprosy likely caused fear and anxiety, heightened by the uncertainty of waiting for a priest's diagnosis.
The requirement for those declared unclean to live outside the camp would lead to feelings of isolation and loneliness, being physically separated from the community.
Being visibly marked as unclean and having to declare oneself unclean could evoke feelings of shame and the burden of social stigma.
Relief would come from symptoms subsiding and being declared clean, while a continued declaration of being unclean could bring despair due to exclusion from community life.