Doctor Who: 10 Huge Problems Nobody Wants To Admit About The Doctor

3. They Run Away From Their Problems

The Doctor is a therapist's dream. They love helping others but they rarely help themselves, particularly when it comes to their emotions.

Running away from Gallifrey may have seemed fine in the moment, but is the universe a better place with the Doctor rampaging through it? Many residents of that universe affected by the Doctor's jaunts would argue not.

The Last Great Time War caused significant emotional damage to the Doctor that they didn't properly confront until The Day of the Doctor, and in that time their fragile mental state and lack of anger management were on full display, usually at the expense of others.

More recently bottling up was a big thing for the Thirteenth Doctor, who became more withdrawn as she learned more about her hidden past, refusing to engage with her companions and snapping at them whenever they tried to help.

Sadly, when you’re the last of your kind, have a much longer lifespan than all of your friends and you ran away from home literally thousands of years ago, you’re perhaps never going to be entirely comfortable confronting stuff like this.

If Anakin Skywalker's turn to the Dark Side tells us anything it's that bottling everything up and not properly dealing with your inner turmoil can have disastrous consequences, and the Doctor has basically been the poster boy for that ever since 1963.