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' Where are your emotions?' A psychologist once asked me why I never seemed to get upset during our appointments. 'You don't get angry when you talk about things that happened, it's like you're telling a story. These are serious, traumatic life events... Where is your anger?' I didn't know what to say.  I still don't. I've had to explain some of this mental health stuff to so many Doctors, Nurses and even more Doctors that it probably has become like a story. And I've tried not to let the details upset me because I've had to go through them so many times with so many people. Would getting angry or upset have made any difference? A few years ago I asked my Doctor if he could refer me back to the hospital. I wanted to speak to a Psychiatrist because I didn't feel as if my medication was working. I wasn't sleeping...  I was getting short-tempered... I was staying at home, closing the blinds and not answering the phone...  I knew th...

I hated Doctor Who in 2005.  The BBC brought it back with Christopher Eccleston and I thought it was rubbish. Eccleston clearly couldn't 'do' comedy. He'd been intense and brilliant in Our Friends In The North and Cracker but his attempts at being funny were a bit uncomfortable to watch. And he had short hair! The Doctor never had short hair - and he definitely didn't wear a leather jacket! They'd also cast a well-known pop-star/celebrity wife as the companion! Sacrilege! And what the hell had they done to the TARDIS? The Police Box was twice the size it used to be, and the console room was completely the wrong colour! What was the point of bringing back Doctor Who just to make it into a completely different programme? And OK, Billie Piper proved she could act - but she was saddled with a typical BBC 'working class' character (meaning she had a dead-end shop job and liked chips). What's worse, they kept dragging the companion's family into th...