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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 won’t let you focus on anything, or anyone, else. If so, it might just be limerence. The psychologist Dorothy Tennov coined the word in 1979 […]
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...
Meditation is a set of techniques for training your attention and calming your mind and body, and you can begin in a few minutes with nothing more than a quiet...
Gaslighting is a form of psychological manipulation where someone tries to make you doubt your own memory, your judgement, and even your grip on reality, usually so they can gain...
ADHD paralysis is one of the most debilitating aspects of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It can affect one’s capacity to show up in their daily life and, as a...
Exposure and Response Prevention, usually shortened to ERP, is the most effective psychological treatment we have for obsessive compulsive disorder. It is a specialised form of exposure therapy, built specifically...
Exposure therapy is a type of psychological treatment that helps people overcome anxiety by facing the situations they have been avoiding, rather than continuing to escape them. It sits within...
Your ADHD brain isn’t broken. It’s wired differently. It runs on interest, novelty and urgency rather than on importance and routine, and that single difference explains a huge amount about...
