Abstract

One morning in surgery a young woman recovering from depression, expresses anxiety that she may lose her new-found friends because of recurrent internet bullying. When I ask her if she has talked about this with her friends she answers that their response is to invoke violence, they ask: ‘Are you going to bray her or shall I?’ they ask. Their brutal loyalty towards her does not assuage her anxiety and contributes to an everyday violence, which feels endemic when listening to many …

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