When an avoidant blocks you, it’s not because they don’t care. It’s because they do. They block you because they love you and they don’t kn

Dismissive avoidants in relationships

What if love is the real cause of depression? I’ve known too many beautiful, sensitive people who took their own lives. All of them were c

The More a Dismissive Avoidant Loves You, the Faster They Run It’s one of the most painful relationship experiences: when someone you care

Choosing Yourself: Healing Anxious Attachment & Letting Go of the Avoidant Who Feared Intimacy There’s something deeply painful about lovin

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In romantic relationships, avoidants often draw you in just enough to keep the connection alive—then withdraw the moment you ask for somet

I feel like I’ve got writers block this morning. There’s a post that I really want to get out but I’m not sure how to tackle it and I...

There was a nice story on the BBC News page a couple of weeks ago, involving a widower who was prescribed rambling for his anxiety in...

I had some amazing feedback from a talk I did last Thursday for an equestrian charity called Stepney Bank Stables which I thought I would...

There was a wonderful article in The Guardian on Monday in which Will Young talked openly and honestly about all sorts of mental health...

Today's post is going to be shorter than usual because having got back from the vaccination centre yesterday afternoon, I was...

In contrast to the terrible news I mentioned yesterday and the difficult and distressing subjects that I often discuss on this site,...

The negative impact that the pandemic is having on our mental health is being widely documented. You can't now do a search for mental...

I am very conscious of the fact that I am covering some very difficult and distressing topics while writing daily on the subject of...

Caroline Flack was a well known English television and radio presenter, who tragically took her own life last year - she was just forty...

It seems that even those who usually have the sunniest dispositions are being affected by these long periods of confinement. This makes...

There was an article in the Mail Online two days ago detailing how a young girl was saved by a sympathetic and quick thinking stranger...

I thought it would be worthwhile to write about anxiety today since it seems to be being broadcast widely with people experiencing it due...