Overthinking: why you cannot stop turning things over
It is three in the morning and you have spent forty minutes replaying a conversation from six days ago. What rumination is, and why thinking harder solves nothing.
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Seeing a psychologist on Spain's public health system: how it works
Yes, there are psychologists in Spain's public health system and access is free. What nobody explains is the route, the waiting times and what treatment actually looks like.
Emotional eating: why it happens and how to tell it from real hunger
It is eleven at night, you are not hungry, and you have spent twenty minutes in front of an open fridge. This is not a willpower problem. What emotional eating is and what helps.
Stages of grief: what the evidence says about the five-stage model
Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Everyone knows the five stages of grief, and almost nobody knows they were not formulated for grief at all.
Procrastination: why it is not laziness and what sits underneath
You have not opened that document in three weeks, and it is not because you do not care. It is the opposite. What procrastination is, what sets it off and when it is worth looking underneath.
Anxiety medication or therapy: what works better for anxiety
Eight minutes in the consulting room, you say you cannot sleep, you leave with a prescription. What anxiety medication really is, what the guidelines recommend and why the question is almost never one or the other.
Intrusive thoughts: what they are, why they appear and when to worry
You are chopping an onion and the image of stabbing someone you love shows up. It does not mean what you think it means. What intrusive thoughts are and when they are worth a closer look.
Types of psychological therapy: what they are and how to choose
CBT, EMDR, ACT, systemic, humanistic. Anyone looking for help for the first time runs into a catalogue of acronyms and no clue which one applies to them. Here is the map.
Neurodivergence in adults: what it means, signs and where to start
A thirty-second video, and suddenly twenty years of odd things click into place. What being neurodivergent really means, which signs keep coming up in adults and how to clear up the doubt.
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