Currently it does nothing yet (well, that is not quite true, it is a prerequisite for some dialogue paths). In the future there will be certain interactions that will be enable/disabled if the affliction is high enough
Ngl the disabled part is going to kill me since I wouldn't know what's dialogue being disabled or not, on other hand if the game is bing patched up or uupdated, how to update the android version in the future in case I want to update mine
If any of the dialogue is blocked it would show it on the dialogue option how and why. There will also be methods to get rid of the affliction in the version currently in the works, but they will be costly
In order to update on android you will have to uninstall and then reinstall the newer version, unfortunately. You can try to export your saves before you do so