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When a parent has a mental illness: supporting the child and the teenager
A mother who no longer gets up, a father in hospital, a parent who drinks or hears voices: many children grow up alongside a parent who has a mental illness, and most of them will not develop that parent's illness. This guide explains what the child goes through, what research has established about the risk and about what protects against it, and how to talk to the child about the illness according to their age, get through a hospital admission, keep the child from becoming the family's carer and protect their life as a child. It offers an eight-week plan and says when to seek help.
Autism in children: a guide for parents
He lines up his toy cars for hours, does not turn round when you call him, and every change of plan turns into a crisis. This guide explains what autism is, where it comes from and what does not cause it, how the path towards a diagnosis works and what genuinely helps according to the research. It offers a method for everyday life, from the predictable day to the crisis plan, and says clearly what does not work and what can do harm.
Depression in children and teenagers: a guide for parents
He slams doors, no longer sees his friends and sleeps until two in the afternoon on Saturdays; she has a stomach ache every morning and keeps saying she is useless. This guide helps you recognise depression behind irritability or withdrawal, ask about suicide without beating about the bush and make the home safe. It describes the treatments that have proved themselves, what is honestly known about medication in young people, and a seven-step method you can start this very week.
Post-traumatic stress: understanding it and rebuilding
Images that come back without warning, broken nights, places you no longer go near, and the feeling that the danger has never quite passed. This guide explains what distinguishes the normal reactions of the first weeks from post-traumatic stress that has taken hold, what keeps it going, and which treatments have proved themselves. It then offers a concrete method for regaining your footing in daily life, which prepares and supports the work done with a therapist.
Tinnitus: easing the distress when the noise won't go away
A whistling that nobody else can hear, which fills the quiet of the evening and eats into your nights. This guide first sets out which signs mean you should see a doctor quickly, then explains why the distress varies so much from one person to another. It then offers a step-by-step method, drawn from the therapies that have proved themselves, so that a sound that will not go away stops running your days and your sleep.
Facing cancer: emotions, fear of recurrence, and the people close to you
Feeling afraid, sad or angry after being told you have cancer is nothing abnormal, and your state of mind does not decide how the illness will develop. This guide helps you tell expected distress apart from depression or an anxiety disorder, then offers a step-by-step method for what weighs most: fatigue, the nights, waiting for test results, the fear that the cancer will come back, a changed body, silence in the family. It also says what helps when the illness is advancing, and how the people close to you can keep going.
When your teenager self-harms: understanding it and helping
Marks on a forearm, long sleeves in the middle of summer, a stained tissue at the bottom of a bin: discovering that your child is hurting themselves turns everything upside down. This guide explains what the act does for them, what it says about suicide risk and why you must always ask the question. It then describes what to do: respond without punishing and without promising secrecy, recognise emergencies, make the home safe without turning it into a prison, and find the treatments that have proved themselves.
Menopause: mood, sleep and hot flushes, and what psychology can do
Hot flushes in the middle of a meeting, nights broken by sweats, a mood that wobbles for no obvious reason: the perimenopause can shake up far more than the body. This guide explains what is happening, what the large studies say about mood and sleep, and what cognitive behavioural therapy can change, with a step-by-step method for hot flushes, nights, low spirits, work, self-image and sexuality.
Caring for someone close with Alzheimer's disease or another dementia
Your mother asks the same question ten times an hour, your husband refuses his evening shower, and you are no longer sleeping. This guide explains what the illness changes in your loved one's mind, why most difficult behaviours have a cause that can be looked for, how to talk to them without setting them up to fail, and how to protect their safety and prepare decisions while they can still make them. It also explains how to keep going yourself without wearing yourself out.
After the birth: baby blues or postnatal depression?
Tears on the third day are often the baby blues, and they pass within a few days. A sadness, an anxiety or an emptiness that lasts for weeks is something else, and it can be treated. This guide helps new parents and those close to them to tell the difference, to recognise the one situation that calls for action the same day, to understand the frightening thoughts that go through the minds of so many parents, and to get back on their feet, starting with the nights.
My child won't go to school any more
Stomach aches every morning, pleading at the door, then whole days at home: school refusal wears families out, and it gets worse when you wait. This guide helps parents understand what their child is avoiding, check first that they are not being bullied, depressed or struggling with learning, and then build a return with the school in small steps, starting with the mornings.
Bedwetting: a guide for parents
Sheets to change in the middle of the night, a child who feels ashamed, a residential school trip coming up. This guide explains why a child wets the bed without meaning to, what makes things worse, and what has proved itself: simple measures, the alarm step by step, and the medicine the doctor can offer. It also says which signs mean you should see a doctor without waiting.
Someone close with borderline personality disorder: understanding and helping
A flood of messages at midnight, a break-up announced and then regretted, injuries hidden under long sleeves: when someone you love has borderline personality disorder, you end up walking on eggshells. This guide explains what is really going on, why the word "manipulation" is misleading, how to acknowledge their emotions without accepting everything, how to set limits that hold, and what to do when their safety is at stake.
Anorexia: a guide for parents
Your child is eating less and less, cuts everything into tiny pieces, goes running before breakfast, and every meal ends in tears or in silence. This guide explains what anorexia nervosa is, why your teenager cannot simply start eating again, and why parents, who are not its cause, are at the heart of the treatment with the strongest evidence. It describes step by step how to get through meals, what helps and what harms, and which signs call for urgent medical advice.
Parental burnout: when being a parent wears you out
You shout more than you would like to, you count the hours until bedtime, and rest is no longer enough to put you back on your feet. This guide explains what parental burnout is, how to tell it apart from depression, and how to rebalance, step by step, the scales between what wears you out and what helps you. It also says frankly what can happen when exhaustion becomes extreme, and where to ask for help straight away.
Someone close with schizophrenia: understanding and supporting
Your son, your sister or your partner lives with schizophrenia, and you no longer know whether to contradict them, reassure them, insist on treatment or say nothing. This guide explains what the person is going through, what research has shown about the role of families, how to talk in a way that calms things down, how to spot a relapse early and how to prepare a plan in advance. It also talks about you, your exhaustion and the help you are entitled to.
Someone close with bipolar disorder: understanding and supporting
Your partner, your child or your parent went through a period when they stopped sleeping and spent money without a thought for the cost, then months when they could no longer get out of bed, and you were told it was bipolar disorder. This guide explains what this illness is, what research has shown about the role of families, and what you can do in practice: spot the first signs of an episode, write a plan in advance, talk in a way that calms things down, respond during a high or a low phase, and keep going yourself over the long term.
Pulling out hair, picking at skin: taking back control
The hand that drifts up into your hair while you watch a series, the forty minutes spent at the mirror digging at a spot, and then the shame. This guide explains why people pull out their hair or pick at their skin without being able to stop, why willpower is not enough, and how habit reversal and changes to your surroundings can help you, step by step, to take back control.
Gambling: taking stock
One more bet to win it back, then another, and the month's money gone in a single evening. This guide helps you take stock without judgement: how gambling keeps people playing, which thinking traps make you play again, what changes with sports betting and online gambling, and how to take back control, from the barriers you can put in place tonight to the debts you need to face. A whole section is addressed to family and friends.
Eco-anxiety: living with worry about the climate
A video of a wildfire watched at midnight, guilt in the vegetable aisle, a dinner cancelled because you no longer have the heart to laugh. This guide explains why worrying about the climate is not an illness, how to tell a worry that has its place from a worry that takes over your life, and offers a method for taking back control of information, of thoughts that go round in circles, of emotions and of action, without ever telling you what to think.
Children's and teenagers' sleep: a guide for parents
The fifth glass of water at ten at night, the wake-ups at two in the morning, the teenager who falls asleep at one and can no longer get up. This guide explains what happens at each age and describes the methods that have proved themselves: the bedtime routine, learning to fall asleep alone step by step, calming evening fears, responding to night terrors, resetting a teenager's clock. It also says plainly what should send you to the doctor.
Stop putting it off: procrastination
The file opened and closed again, the email read four times and never answered, the envelope that has been sitting on the hall table for three weeks. Procrastination is neither laziness nor simply poor organisation: it is a way of escaping, right now, the discomfort a task stirs up, and paying for it later. This guide explains that mechanism and offers a step-by-step method, for studying as well as for work.
Perfectionism: high standards without burning out
Rereading a two-line email five times, putting off a report because it will not be perfect, remembering only the two marks lost out of twenty. This guide tells the high standards that help apart from the perfectionism that hurts, explains why the bar goes up every time you reach it, and offers a method that has been evaluated: spotting your rules, testing "good enough", widening what your worth rests on and answering self-criticism differently.
Living with chronic pain
Months of pain, being told the tests are normal, and watching your life shrink around the pain. This guide starts from a simple principle: your pain is real. It explains why pain persists and how fear and avoidance keep it going, then offers a concrete method for pacing your activity, getting back to what matters, sleeping better and preparing for flare-ups, alongside your medical care.
Nightmares: taking back your nights
Waking with a start, heart pounding, from the same dream for the tenth time, then dreading the next night. This guide explains what a nightmare is and what is not one, why nightmares set in, and how to get rid of them with the method that sleep specialists recommend: rewriting the nightmare, then rehearsing its new version every day, while awake. A whole section helps parents whose children have nightmares.
Bullying and cyberbullying: a guide for parents
A child with a stomach ache every Sunday evening, a phone turned face down on the table, friends who are no longer mentioned: bullying is rarely visible, and even more rarely talked about. This guide helps parents recognise it, respond well when their child opens up, protect them, bring in the school in writing and hold firm over time, including when everything is happening online, and when it is their own child who is doing the bullying or watching without a word.
Getting out of emotional dependence
Waiting for a message all day, rereading a conversation ten times, asking once again whether you are loved, and feeling everything collapse as soon as the other person moves away a little. This guide explains that mechanism without making an illness of it, shows why seeking reassurance drives away precisely what you want to keep, and offers a method for rebuilding a foundation that no longer depends on one single person.
Hearing voices: understanding and coping
Hearing a voice that no one else can hear is more frequent than people think, and it does not automatically mean what one fears. This guide explains what research has established, why some people suffer a great deal from it and others very little, which strategies help day to day, and why medical advice is always the first step.
When emotions overflow: instability and borderline personality
Everything rises too fast, too strongly, and takes hours to come back down. A single sentence is enough to tip the day over, relationships swing from intensity to emptiness, and impulsivity does damage that is regretted at once. This guide explains that mechanism without labelling anyone, sets out the skills whose effectiveness is established, and points out something few people know: it gets better with time.
Binge eating and bulimia
Eating a great deal, fast, without being able to stop, then the shame, the promises, and the next day spent making up for it. This guide explains what a binge really is, why dietary restriction is its main fuel, and how to break out of the circle: eating regularly, observing without judging yourself, defusing the triggers, and finding a liveable relationship with your body and with food again.
Helping someone close who drinks
You count the bottles, you invent excuses, you always argue in the evening and never in the morning. This guide explains why the reproach-against-denial stand-off never works, what research has shown to be most effective in getting someone into treatment, how to speak at the right moment, how to stop shielding them from consequences, how to protect the children, and how to hold up yourself.
Stopping smoking
Stopping smoking is not a question of willpower: it is a question of method, treatment and preparation. This guide explains how nicotine dependence works, what withdrawal looks like and how long it lasts, what nicotine replacement, support and the electronic cigarette are really worth, how to get through cravings, how to limit weight gain, and how to start again after going back to smoking.
Drinking less, or stopping
One glass that becomes three, a bottle that lasts less long than it used to, an alcohol-free Monday that never comes. This guide helps you take stock without judgement: how much you actually drink, what alcohol does to your sleep, your anxiety and your mood, how to choose between cutting down and stopping, why stopping abruptly can be dangerous, and how to get through cravings without relapsing.
Helping someone close who is depressed
Someone you love no longer gets up, no longer replies, refuses everything you suggest — and you no longer know whether to press on or say nothing. This guide sets out what genuinely helps, what makes things worse without anyone meaning it to, how to talk about suicidal thoughts, how to bring someone to care without forcing them, and how to keep going yourself without losing your own health.
Understanding depression
Depression is not great sadness: it is an illness that switches off desire, slows the body and distorts thinking. This guide explains what is happening, why withdrawal makes things worse, and what has genuinely proved itself as a way out — starting again through action, working on your thoughts, treating sleep, and knowing when medication or psychotherapy are indicated.
Anger: understanding it and regulating it
The voice that rises over a pair of shoes left out, the sentence you regret ten seconds later, the steering wheel, the children, the partner who goes quiet. This guide explains what happens in the body and in your thinking when anger breaks out, why letting off steam makes it worse, and how to regulate it without falling silent.
Stop overthinking: getting out of rumination
Replaying Tuesday's conversation, analysing why you are the way you are, wondering what the other person meant, and going to bed at midnight with the same questions you had at six in the evening. This guide explains the difference between thinking and ruminating, why rumination gives the illusion of being useful, and what actually gets you out of it.
The fear of being ill: health anxiety
A lump under the skin, a headache that keeps coming back, a reassuring test result that only reassures for three days. This guide explains how the fear of being seriously ill takes hold and keeps itself going: the body checks, the online searches, the reassurance that brings relief and then evaporates. It offers the method that has proved itself and the way to set a frame for your medical consultations.
Phobias: exposure step by step
A spider in the bathroom, a flight to catch, a blood test, a lift, a dog in the street: the fear rises, you avoid, and the fear grows. This guide explains how a fear becomes a phobia, why avoidance keeps it going, and how to be rid of it through well-conducted graded exposure — including the special case of blood and injections.
Constant worry: generalised anxiety disorder
Worrying about work, about the health of those you love, about money, about a message that has gone unanswered, and starting again the next day with another subject. This guide explains why worry takes hold and feeds on itself, how to tell the worry that serves a purpose from the worry that spins on the spot, and offers the method that has proved itself: worry time, problem solving, and learning to live with uncertainty.
Panic attacks and agoraphobia
A racing heart, the feeling of suffocating, the fear of dying or going mad, then the fear that it will happen again — and life narrowing down to the places judged safe. This guide explains what a panic attack is, why it feeds itself, and how to get out of it: correcting catastrophic interpretations, deliberately exposing yourself to the sensations you dread, giving up safety behaviours, and winning back the places you avoid.
Screens and social media: a guide for parents
What the research actually shows about screens and social media, age by age, without scaremongering or complacency. Sleep, attention, body image, bullying, video games, the first phone, and the family rules that really hold up over time.
Am I autistic? ADHD in adulthood
Two questions that often arrive together, at thirty or at fifty. What ADHD and autism really are in adults, what tells them apart from tiredness, anxiety or depression, what a diagnosis changes — and an orientation questionnaire to find out whether an assessment is warranted.
Cannabis: taking stock
A joint in the evening to switch off, then two, then the day that starts with one. This guide helps you take stock without judgement: what cannabis actually does, how to tell whether your use has become a problem, how to choose between cutting down and stopping, what withdrawal looks like, and how to get through cravings without relapsing.
When someone close talks about dying: ask, make safe, stay
A sentence let slip one evening, a worrying message, a silence that weighs: when someone you love speaks of death, you no longer know what to say or do. This guide explains how to ask the question directly, how to judge how urgent it is, how to put dangerous means out of reach, how to build a safety plan, and how to stay alongside in the weeks that follow.
Saying no: standing up for yourself
Agreeing to one more meeting, a favour at the worst possible moment, a dinner you dread — and then being annoyed with yourself all evening. This guide explains why refusing is so hard, how to say no without justifying yourself or attacking, how to ask for what you need, how to hold firm when someone insists, and what to do with the guilt that follows.
Making a success of retirement
Retirement frees up time and removes, all at once, a structure, daily contacts and a status. This guide explains what really changes, why the first months are often euphoric and then empty, and how to build a life that holds: a rhythm, connections, a role, a body looked after, and a couple who reorganise without treading on each other.
How to study better
Re-reading, highlighting, copying out revision notes: the most common methods give the feeling of learning without making anything stick. This programme explains what research has established about memory and understanding, and turns it into concrete techniques for lessons, languages, exams and training courses.
Helping your child study better
Homework that turns into a battle, lessons learned the night before and forgotten the next day, the question of whether to help or step back. This guide explains what a parent can really change, how to help a child revise differently, how to support reading and maths, and when a difficulty deserves professional advice.
Loneliness: rebuilding connection
Sundays that never end, a phone that never rings, or the feeling of being alone even among other people. This guide explains what loneliness is, why it tends to keep itself going, and how to rebuild connection step by step: changing the way you see others, making the most of small contacts, reviving old ties, creating regular opportunities.
Arguing less, talking better
The same arguments coming back, words that go further than you meant, one partner pressing while the other shuts down. This guide explains what research has observed in couples who do well, how to spot your own cycle, start a conversation differently, take a useful break, repair, and live with the disagreements that will never be resolved.
Making friends as an adult
After school and university, friendships no longer happen by themselves. Moves, work, children, separations: many adults see their circle shrink without knowing how to rebuild it. This guide explains how friendships are born, where to find the right opportunities, how to take the first step, move from acquaintance to friend, and keep friendships going over time.
Heartbreak: getting over a break-up
A break-up can hurt as much as a bereavement: you stop sleeping, you reread the messages, you keep checking the other person's social media, you wonder endlessly what you got wrong. This guide explains why it hurts so much, what prolongs the pain and what eases it, and offers a concrete path, from the first days to the months that follow, to find out who you are again.
Helping a loved one who is withdrawing
An elderly parent who no longer goes out, a young adult shut away in their room, a friend who has stopped replying: watching someone close withdraw is worrying and often leaves you at a loss. This guide helps you understand what may lie behind isolation, start a conversation without putting them on the defensive, remove practical obstacles, rebuild connection step by step, spot serious situations, and look after yourself over time.
Stay or leave: moving past indecision
Months, sometimes years, of wondering whether to leave your partner, changing your mind from one day to the next, talking about it to everyone without getting anywhere. This guide explains why people get stuck, how to tell a relationship problem from something else, how to take stock without ruminating, and how to reach a decision that is truly yours.
When jealousy takes over the relationship
Suspicions going round in a loop, your partner's phone you can't stop looking at, repeated questions that never reassure for long. This guide explains where jealousy comes from, why checking keeps it going, how to bring it back to its proper place, and what the partner can do. It also says when jealousy becomes control, or the sign of a disorder that needs assessing.
Coercive control: recognising it and getting free
You are monitored, isolated, put down, decided for, and you end up doubting your own judgement. This guide explains what coercive control is, even without hitting, why it is so hard to leave, which signs indicate high danger, how to protect yourself and prepare to leave safely, and how to help someone close to you.
After infidelity: rebuilding or separating
Discovering infidelity feels like an earthquake, for the betrayed partner and for the one who cheated. This guide explains what each person goes through, how to get through the first weeks without making the damage worse, how to understand what happened, and how to decide, then rebuild or separate.
Divorce: getting through the separation for yourself
A divorce is a bereavement, a house move, a legal process, a new arrangement for the children and a budget to rebuild, all at once. This guide looks after you, not just the paperwork: what separation puts you through, how to get through the first weeks, how to keep anger from turning into war, how to hold daily life together, and how to rebuild a life that feels like yours.
Leaving someone: deciding, telling them, holding firm
A lot is said about people who are left, almost nothing about people who leave. Yet leaving someone you have loved, or still love, is one of the hardest things to do. This guide helps you check that the decision is made, prepare to tell them, find the words, face their reaction, hold firm in the weeks that follow, and get through your own guilt.
Supporting a child or adolescent through their parents' separation
How to tell them, what a child goes through at each age, how to organise two homes — and what research identifies as the real danger: it is not the separation itself, and you have a hold on it.
Supporting a bereaved child or adolescent
What a child understands about death at each age, the exact words for telling them, and the factor that best predicts how they will fare — it is not the one people assume, and it depends on you.
Social anxiety: the eight-step programme
The problem is not that you are awkward: it is that your attention turns inwards at exactly the moment it needs to be outside. The mechanism, and the treatment with the best results in this disorder.
Grief: understanding it, getting through it, and knowing when to ask for help
The five stages do not exist, not falling apart is not coldness, and most people do not need therapy — but around one in ten stays stuck, and for them there is a treatment with demonstrated efficacy.
OCD: the eight-step exposure programme
Why rituals relieve in the moment and make everything worse afterwards, why your most horrifying thoughts say nothing about you, and the exposure and response prevention programme, which means facing what triggers the anxiety without performing the ritual — the treatment with the strongest evidence base.
Increasing your longevity: the Psychotip® programme
Everything your behaviour can genuinely add to your life expectancy — with the figures —, what is useless despite the marketing, and a twelve-week programme to install the levers one at a time.
Mindfulness: the eight-week programme
What mindfulness actually does — and what it does not —, the adverse effects rarely mentioned, and a graded eight-week programme to establish a practice without giving up your life to it.
Self-esteem: a step-by-step programme to rebuild it
Why low self-esteem survives compliments, achievements and positive affirmations — and an eight-step, evidence-based programme to raise it for good.
Understanding trauma and the window of tolerance
What the body and memory do after a shock, explained clearly. The window of tolerance as a practical map, what closes it, what widens it — and the treatments whose efficacy is established.
Psychological well-being: what it is, and how to raise it
Well-being is not good mood, and it cannot be decreed. What the research has established: two faces, six levers, what genuinely works, what works far less than claimed — and how to pick one lever and hold it for six weeks.
Taking back control of your attention
You open your phone without having decided to, you lose track of what you were doing, and you end the day feeling you held on to nothing. This programme helps you understand what captures your attention, reduce the cost of interruptions, and decide what your tools are there to do for you.
Emotion regulation: the toolkit
A tool that works at intensity 4 does not work at intensity 9. This programme sorts the evidence-based strategies into four drawers — before, when it is strong, when it is moderate, afterwards — and comes with twelve printable worksheets.
Adult ADHD: organising daily life
Adult ADHD is not compensated for by more willpower but by an external system: making time visible, externalising memory, engineering the start. Plus the question of medication, handled plainly.
Preventing burnout
Burnout is not a personal weakness but a lasting imbalance between what work demands and what it gives. Six areas to diagnose, four recovery experiences, and what to say to your employer.
Understanding and easing anxiety
What relieves you in the moment is what keeps anxiety going. This programme explains exposure in the opening pages, then puts it to work in eight precise steps, from the week of observation to the relapse plan.
Getting your sleep back: the Psychotip® programme
Cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia, recommended ahead of any sleeping pill. The principle is explained in the opening pages, then put to work in eight steps: diary, calculation, precautions, sleep window, stimulus control, weekly adjustments, the effort to sleep, stabilisation.
Behavioural activation: fighting depression
A psychological treatment that performed as well as an antidepressant in the most severely depressed people, in a landmark trial. The principle is explained in the opening pages, then put to work in eight steps: observe, spot the avoidance, choose, grade, plan, start, climb, consolidate.
Supporting your anxious child
What quietly keeps a child's anxiety going, and what makes it recede: validating without reassuring, reducing accommodation (the everyday adjustments that feed the fear), building the bravery ladder. With the exact words to use.
ADHD in children and teenagers: the strategies that work at home
Understanding ADHD, then what to put in place at home: instructions, routines, homework, screens, sleep, adolescence and medication. What the research supports, and what it rules out.
Defiant child, ADHD child: the PSYCHOTIP® parent programme
Understand ADHD and oppositional defiant disorder, then ten concrete steps to break out of the daily escalation and rebuild authority that works.
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