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ADHD gets missed in women because it looks like overwhelm, not hyperactivity. Women mask it, the anxiety or low mood is what gets treated, and it often only becomes unmanageable...

Dialectical behaviour therapy is recommended for anxiety far more often than the evidence supports. There are specific situations where DBT skills earn their place, and it is worth knowing which...

Autistic adults often arrive at the clinic having already been through dialectical behaviour therapy, or having been placed on a waiting list for it, unsure what to make of the...

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...