The Prison Doctor

by Amanda Brown

It’s never too late to start over. Whether it be your career, your marriage, your lifestyle.

Large homes, with large gardens and expensive cars parked in the driveways. Many people would look at the area and think that the people who lived there surely had to be happy. But, from my experience, inside many of those magnificent houses, behind the seemingly perfect façades, there lurked a lot of anguish and unhappiness.

I learned early on in my career that money very often doesn’t buy happiness

OCD is quite a common disorder, and can have devastating and crippling effects on people’s lives.

Often the OCD worsens when people feel anxious or stressed.

What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare?

That magical moment confirmed how it’s often the simple things you do for people, things you almost forget as the day whizzes by, that can make the biggest difference.

realised the drugs weren’t her only addiction. She had become dependent

I was also amazed by how many women told me that they felt safer in prison than outside.

I soon realised that a high percentage of the women in prison were actually victims, and that was perhaps the most striking thing about female prisoners.

That, and the fact that she was a primary-school teacher who hid a machine gun in her knicker drawer.

On the contrary, she told me that it had made her realise that most of the things she had owned, she hadn’t needed. ‘It was a shock to the system, I’m not going to lie. But you suddenly realise how little you need to get by.’