Topic
Stress & burnout
Stress is a useful response in the short term, but when it goes on without enough recovery, it can lead to exhaustion. The resources in this topic help you recognise the signs of burnout, at work or as a parent, and act on its causes rather than on the symptoms alone. They also cover chronic pain, which often comes with constant tension and deep fatigue.
10 resources
For the public
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.
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.
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.
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.
For professionals
These manuals are written for psychologists, psychiatrists and other mental health practitioners. Anyone can read a preview; the full text is reserved for practitioners who have submitted proof of their professional status and who hold a professional plan.
Tinnitus: a therapist's manual
A ten-session protocol, session by session, for adults whose tinnitus causes them suffering, delivered in liaison with the ENT specialist. It begins with the ENT assessment and the signs that call for prompt medical advice, then draws on cognitive behavioural therapy for tinnitus, enriched with acceptance and mindfulness: understanding the sound, relaxing the body, making attention more flexible, re-examining thoughts, giving up unnecessary protection, getting sleep back, stopping the struggle. It does not promise silence: the established effects concern the impact of tinnitus, not its loudness, and the manual says so. It also covers associated hyperacusis, suicide risk, and the place of hearing aids, sound therapy and medication, without any doses, with worksheets to hand over and full references.
Supporting a person with cancer: a therapist's manual
A ten-session programme for adults with cancer whose distress becomes excessive, lasts or prevents them from living, at any point in the illness, from diagnosis to the end of life. It begins by sorting out expected distress, adjustment disorder, major depression and anxiety disorder, and by looking for what belongs to the doctor. It brings together what has been evaluated in psycho-oncology — problem solving, activation paced to energy, work on worry and fear of recurrence, the principles of meaning-centred therapies and of the CALM approach for advanced disease — and it explicitly assesses suicide risk and the wish to die. Screening, measures, loved ones and children, pointers on end-of-life law to be related to the law of each country, worksheets to hand over and full references.
Adjustment disorder: a therapist's manual
A brief protocol of six to eight sessions for adjustment disorder in adults, as ICD-11 has redefined it: a preoccupation with a stressor and a failure to adapt. The manual begins by deciding whether this really is the disorder in question, and says what moves you on to another diagnosis — major depressive episode, post-traumatic stress disorder, prolonged grief. It reduces the room the preoccupation takes up, solves one by one the problems the blow has produced, gets the days going again, makes room for what does not change and prepares the return to work. Suicide risk, often underestimated in this diagnosis, is assessed at every session; measures, worksheets to hand over and full references.
Burnout (occupational exhaustion): a therapist's manual
A ten-session protocol, session by session, for burnout in adults, based on work-focused cognitive behavioural therapy. First the triage, because burnout is not an illness in the classifications and it often conceals a depressive episode or a suicide risk. Then active recovery, the analysis of work, the rules that exhaust, the stepped return-to-work plan carried out with the GP and the occupational health doctor, and the decision to stay, change or leave. The debate between burnout and depression, measures that are free to use, what the trials really show, worksheets to hand over and full references.
Chronic pain: a therapist's manual
A twelve-session protocol, individual or in a group, for adults who have been living with pain for more than three months — chronic low back pain, fibromyalgia, widespread musculoskeletal pain, chronic headache, persistent post-surgical pain —, delivered in liaison with the doctor or the pain clinic. It draws on cognitive behavioural therapy and on acceptance and commitment therapy: understanding pain, pacing activity, facing feared movements, working on catastrophising, making room for what cannot be controlled, sleeping, preparing for flare-ups. The established effects are small to moderate, and the manual says so. It also covers somatic red flags, suicide risk, the place of medication without any doses, supporting an opioid taper decided by the doctor, and measures, with worksheets to hand over and full references.
Other topics
- Addictions10
- ADHD6
- Anxiety34
- Attention & focus9
- Autism4
- Children & parents35
- Depression & mood25
- Eating disorders4
- Emotions24
- Gender identity1
- Grief7
- Loneliness5
- Longevity5
- Mindfulness1
- Neurocognitive disorders3
- OCD7
- Personality disorders12
- Psychosis8
- Relationships14
- Self-esteem7
- Sleep12
- Studying3
- Tics & Tourette1
- Trauma10
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