STEPHEN FRY

I am a Scottish Ex-Pat who had lived in The Netherlands for 17 years and was recently diagnosed Bi Polar. Although I speak good Dutch and the medical community certainly speak great English, it was not until I saw this documentary that I fully understand what has been happening to me over the past 30 or so years.

I have always been able to make friends with people easily and many of these are still good friends years later. Now I suppose I could be called fairly good looking (at least in my younger days!) but I am just an ordinary guy, a welder by trade, so why did these people, Dutch and British, think of me so highly...loved even? This programme made it startlingly clear to me, a bolt from the blue, so to speak. It was my un-medicated BP!!!

During the doc Mr. Fry and others mentioned the "button" and at the end Stephen himself stated again "Would I switch the button off, I think not". Now I knew what the attraction was other people had for me, it was the way I acted towards them, I never judge, I love to be in the company of others and I love to converse with people. Some people call me a blether ( Scots for chatterbox I suppose) My best friend just says "Shut up"and I do.

No BP is not a life destoying illness for me, as it was for one poor woman in the programme and I will continue along the path life has chosen for me and never, ever, will I push the button.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart BBC and Mr. Stephen Fry.