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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 for the way OCD traps people. If you have read our guide to exposure therapy, ERP is what happens when you take that same principle […]
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...
Most people who search for the difference between a psychopath and a sociopath are not writing an essay. They have someone in mind. A partner whose charm never quite reached...
Autism scripting is when an autistic person uses repeated phrases, lines of dialogue, or longer passages they’ve heard before as a way of communicating. It’s a form of echolalia. And...
Around a third of adults in Ireland and the UK now use AI for emotional or relationship questions. It is convenient, available at 2am, and almost always tells you what...
In many ways, dating someone with mild autism is no different from dating anyone else. We all have our likes and dislikes. We all have our own quirks. We all...
When tics and obsessions share the same brain circuits, the line between them can blur. Understanding where Tourette’s ends and OCD begins changes how both should be treated. In specialist...
Stimming is one of the most visible parts of being autistic, and one of the most misunderstood. For many adults, it is a regulatory tool that has been quietly suppressed...
Repetitive behaviours are a core feature of autism. Tics are a separate neurological phenomenon. When both are present in the same person, distinguishing one from the other matters for treatment....
