I experienced something similar a couple of years ago when my biography of Mrs Beeton suggested that Britain's first domestic goddess was quite possibly suffering from syphilis.
"She couldn't speak and was quite clearly suffering a stroke.
Within hours of the incident, a profile emerged from his online activities of a deeply troubled young man resentful of government and, judging from the incoherence of his expressed thoughts, quite possibly suffering from an undiagnosed mental illness.
Unlike Smith and Love, the Nickelodeon starlet did not succumb to hard partying or drugs, but is, instead, quite clearly suffering from a diagnosable disease (most likely schizophrenia co-occurring with post-traumatic stress disorder, though no official statement has been released).
One could take the extreme example of elderly people in a nursing home, quite often suffering from constipation.
"But I have absolutely no doubt that (the boy) must be given the chance, a very good chance, of a long and fulfilling life rather than suffering, quite soon, a ghastly, agonising, death".
I thought I'd never seen anyone quite so... raw and suffering, yes, but quite so ruthless.
"We are suffering quite severely because of job losses," says Bernhard Esau, Namibia's deputy minister for mines.
Japan, ironically, is not suffering quite as much: volumes fell by only 2% last year.The industry's high fixed costs make profits vulnerable.
Anecdotal reports have suggested that the business of crafting may not be suffering quite so much as the rest of the retail landscape in the current recession.
