How to survive exam season
Our work with children tells us that anxiety around exams is a huge cause of stress for young people and their parents. Helping kids through this tricky time requires a lot of courage on the part of their adult carers…
Our work with children tells us that anxiety around exams is a huge cause of stress for young people and their parents. Helping kids through this tricky time requires a lot of courage on the part of their adult carers…
Most of us have a voice in our heads that says an emphatic ‘no’! ‘You need to do better, be stronger, try harder,’ this part of ourselves might say. ‘Nothing less than perfect will do.’ From an evolutionary perspective this…
Greta Thunberg, the 16 year-old Swedish schoolgirl who started the school strike movement as a protest against inaction on climate change, has Asperger's syndrome. I’m different, she told an interviewer this week, and that difference “allowed me to focus on…
I came across a novel treatment for anxiety on social media this week - custard creams under the duvet! I love this for its compassionate approach to the self, but there are other strategies out there for helping ourselves when…
Prescriptions of anti-depressant medication have doubled in a decade, it was reported last week. A total of 70.9 million items used to treat conditions such as depression and anxiety were given out in England in 2018, according to NHS data. But…