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I have suffered with mental health issues since my teenage years and have only recently emerged from another bout of severe depression (I have also worked as a City solicitor for many years and am now the general counsel of a major financial services company). If you have not had first hand experience of how overwhelming, terrifying and bewildering mental illness can be please don't drone on about honesty and integrity. The comparison with shell shock is completely appropriate - the "black dog" deprives the sufferer of any ability to make rational judgments. The characters of these unfortunate people cannot be assessed based on what they may have done when they were, quite simply, not themselves.

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