My opinion is that people who are more drastically affected by outside circumstances than the rest of their group, and who have their own private way of suffering, unshared with the rest of the unit, those people don't tend to be team-players and rarely volunteer leadership or take responsibility.
When the bus breaks down and everyone is about to miss their appointment, there is no sense in being the biggest cry baby. Lament is acceptable, but the person who gets out of the bus first and runs for a cab is the real winner. _IMO_.