I was in a state of such flux. Was I returning to work or was I not? And if I wasn't, what the hell was I going to do with myself?  And the answer to that was of course, accept what you can't control and take control of what you can. Once I let that go, that's when the anxiety really started to...

If you had something bad happen to you, I think everyone should be allowed to wallow for a while. I mean, God, you're allowed to be a bit upset, really - but I think many of us are very hard on ourselves, we expect a lot of things about ourselves, and we expect a lot of things about people around...

So he came out of the bathroom and I sort of grabbed him and I said to him, “Can you say something to me?” and he went rrrrr and I said OK, this is not right.   We have heard a lot about the stroke experience from Piers, now it is time to hear from the other person who the stroke has had a...