If you can stay calm under extreme pressure, most people will fear you and admire you. Your behavior during pressure becomes your true reputation. People don’t trust consistency alone. They trust consistency under pressure. Anyone can behave well when conditions are easy. The moment stress appears, real patterns reveal themselves.
If you are a man who is suffering, nobody will care whether you live or die.
It would be wise to conceal your suffering since if people find out that you are doing badly they will assume it is because you are weak and incompetent.