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Dialectical behaviour therapy is one of the most studied psychological treatments for borderline personality disorder, and the evidence that it helps is good, particularly for reducing self-harm and crisis behaviour. What far fewer people are told is that DBT works in a particular sequence, and that the part most people find hardest tends to arrive […]
Dialectical behaviour therapy is one of the most studied psychological treatments for borderline personality disorder, and the evidence that it helps is good, particularly for reducing self-harm and crisis behaviour....
Medication and a proper assessment do most of the heavy lifting in ADHD care. What they tend to leave behind is the emotional side. The flash of anger that lands...
Plenty of people go through a good addiction programme, do everything asked of them, and relapse anyway. Not because they lacked willpower, and not because the programme was poor. For...
Plenty of people in Ireland come to this question the hard way. A long wait for the right support in the public system, a decision to go privately, and then...
There is a saying in the care world: if you have met one person with autism, you have met one person with autism. It gets repeated often enough to sound...
Ireland’s relationship with sex has shifted almost beyond recognition in a generation. What was once barely mentioned is now talked about far more openly, and yet plenty of people still...
Have you ever found yourself suddenly, almost inexplicably, head-over-heels for someone? One moment you’re fine, and the next you can’t stop thinking about them. It’s that intense, all-consuming feeling that...
If you have found your way here because you are wondering whether you might be asexual, autistic, or both, the first thing worth saying is that asexuality is a perfectly...
Sex is one of the areas of life that borderline personality disorder tends to touch, though it rarely gets talked about with much honesty. Borderline personality disorder affects how a...
Codependency is a pattern of relating in which one person consistently puts another’s needs, feelings and wants ahead of their own, until they start to lose touch with what they...
