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Analysis paralysis: a podcast with UKCP

Listen to our podcast with the UKCP, Talking Therapies: How to switch off a busy mind

Psychologies

2 August 201918 February 2022

‘I had an affair but couldn’t understand why’: How your childhood may hold clues to what happened

An intense attraction can feel impossible to explain, particularly when it leads somewhere you never intended to go. Could old emotional wounds be part of the story? A psychotherapist explains how our earliest relationships can influence the way we connect as adults and why they could lead to infidelity.

Seven in ten midlife women have experienced a sexual-health issue in the past year — so why is it still so taboo?

The symptoms are common. The conversations aren’t. New research reveals the physical and emotional toll of sexual-health changes — and why so many women feel they simply have to put up with them. For many women, it starts with something that seems easy to dismiss. Sex becomes uncomfortable. Desire quietly disappears. Perhaps it’s too embarrassing […]

How to stop comfort eating — without giving up comfort food

If stress, boredom or difficult emotions send you straight to the kitchen, the answer may not be more willpower. It may be having more ways to cope. Comfort eating is often described as a bad habit that needs to be broken. But if you regularly eat when you’re stressed, bored, lonely or overwhelmed, simply telling […]

Do your emotions often feel bigger than the situation? The overlooked ADHD symptom you may not know about

Think ADHD is only about concentration? Think again. Emotional dysregulation can make feelings hit harder and faster, leaving you wondering why something so small has triggered such a big response. We asked a doctor how to recognize and manage it.

Many adults are living with undiagnosed autism without realising it – these are the seven hidden signs experts want you to know

From workplace challenges to social exhaustion, Anne Fletcher explores the subtle traits of autism that can remain hidden for decades before a diagnosis. Words: Anne Fletcher. Images: Shutterstock. I remember the first time I heard about autism. It was the 80s, and Dustin Hoffman was huge. Then he did Rain Man. It took the world […]