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Don’t wear it on your sleeve

In other words, their worst enemy is themselves. They don’t have the self control to exercise restraint and tack all the time. Or, they wear everything on their sleeve and therefore are always inviting envy and/or jealousy – these two always come in a pair and they are really more of less the same thing.

Alright, media examples of people who wear or don’t wear it on their sleeve:

1. When Michael Yardy flew home from the Cricket World Cup this week suffering from depression, he joined a long list of elite sportsmen who have made the difficult decision to seek help for a mental illness.

England batsman Marcus Trescothick left the Ashes tour to Australia in 2006 with what was described at the time as a “stress-related illness”. Later he wrote a book about his battle against depression.

In an interview with BBC Sport programme Inside Sport in 2009, he recalled how he thought about harming himself to prove he had a problem.

“I considered hurting myself just to show people how much pain I was in,” he said.

“If you’ve got a broken leg you’ve got a cast on your leg, people can see you’ve got a problem but when you’ve got mental problems there is nothing evident to people to show you need help.”

Boxer Frank Bruno, Celtic football manager Neil Lennon and All Blacks rugby union star John Kirwan have also talked openly about their depression.

Admitting there is a problem is something sports people find extremely hard, not least because they are conditioned to be both physically and mentally tough.