My two cents as a sufferer of emotional pain is that if the exposure of a personal emotional wound, raw and without bandage, helps others heal then that is wort

My two cents as a sufferer of emotional pain is that if the exposure of a personal emotional wound, raw and without bandage, helps others heal then that is worth it. This is speculation as I have no formal training in mental health nor neuroscience, but it is my anecdotally formed opinion that any person suffering from loneliness is sure to appreciate the palliative effects of the outing of one's personal pain for others to relate to, thereby serving as both a sword by which the personal enemy of loneliness is cut down and a bridge on which to share the same power with others. To me, if one cannot understand this then one does not understand loneliness nor how to dig themselves out of it. Which John may not have. Brian Reed intimately got to know and was deeply affected by John's story, and it is shameful to me that others without understanding of neither their relationship nor what John went through would think themselves judge and jury on the morality of this production. It is reasonable to question them, but to pass the judgement that Brian Reed is taking advantage of John for his own journalistic advances is to not think very deeply about the podcast in my opinion. Brian likely recognized this relationship between the sharing of loneliness and its cure, and likely conjectured that this is what a healthy version of John would have wanted.