The amount of bulldozer callousness against people who flay themselves open bearing personal witness is what gets to me – it's sickening. Reminds me of the anecdote Stephen Fry has told of an old Oxford don's advice to a young colleague: "A word of advice: don't try to be clever, we're all clever here – only try to be kind, a little kind."

But that simple request always gets certain people's hackles up, it seems. Even if in this particular instance they haven't been very clever nor kind.