Therapy insights for lives between worlds
Practical, sourced guides to everyday mental health, written by the Bliss Therapy editorial team and reviewed by our clinical team, plus essays from our psychologists and founder.
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- Anxiety and worry
- Relationships and self-worth
- Coping skills
- Trauma and family
- Depression and low mood
- Work and burnout
- ADHD
- Starting therapy
- Life abroad
- Essays
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Anxiety and worry
Anxiety and worryHigh-functioning anxiety: signs, causes and what helps
Looking fine but feeling exhausted: what high-functioning anxiety is, why it is not a diagnosis, the signs, and what actually helps.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Anxiety and worryStress vs anxiety (and overwhelm): how to tell the difference
How to tell stress, anxiety and overwhelm apart, a three-question self-check, and what helps with each.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Anxiety and worryHow to help social anxiety: practical steps and therapy
More than shyness: practical steps for social anxiety, why it keeps going, and the therapy with the strongest evidence.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
- Anxiety and worry
How to stop a panic attack: what helps now, and what helps for good
What to do in the moment, how long panic attacks last, when to call for help, and the therapy that works best for them.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Anxiety and worryPanic attack vs anxiety attack: what is the difference?
How a panic attack differs from what people call an anxiety attack, side by side, and what helps with each.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 9 min read
Relationships and self-worth
Relationships and self-worthHow to stop people-pleasing: 9 steps that help
Nine practical steps, with phrases to use, for saying no without guilt, plus where people-pleasing comes from and when to get help.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Relationships and self-worthHyper-independence: when doing everything alone becomes a problem
Why some of us find it so hard to ask for help, whether it is really a trauma response, and small steps to let people in.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Relationships and self-worthImposter syndrome: why you feel like a fraud and how to overcome it
Why capable people feel like frauds, what the research really says, and practical steps to quiet the inner critic.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Relationships and self-worthHow to set healthy boundaries with family, partners and at work
What boundaries really are, phrases to use with family, partners and at work, and how culture shapes them.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Relationships and self-worthDating anxiety: why dating feels scary and how to cope
Why dating can feel so scary, and practical ways to cope before a date and early in a new relationship.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Relationships and self-worthAttachment styles: the four types, and can your attachment style change?
The four attachment styles in one table, what the research really shows, and whether, and how, your attachment style can change.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Relationships and self-worthFearful avoidant attachment: signs, causes and how to heal
Wanting closeness but fearing it: what fearful avoidant attachment is, how it differs from disorganised attachment, and how people heal.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Coping skills
Coping skillsRadical acceptance: what it is and how to practise it
The DBT skill for accepting what you cannot change: what it means, the steps in plain words, examples, a free worksheet and what it is not.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 12 min read
Coping skillsCognitive distortions: a list with examples, and how to challenge them
The unhelpful thinking styles CBT works with, everyday examples of each, and how to challenge them.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Trauma and family
- Trauma and family
Intergenerational trauma: what it is, signs and how to heal
How the effects of trauma can pass through families, what the science of epigenetics really shows, and why it is a risk, not a sentence.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 13 min read
- Trauma and family
What is dissociation? Signs, causes and what helps
What it means to feel detached or unreal, when it is normal, how it links with stress and trauma, and what helps.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
- Trauma and family
Long-term effects of bullying: how it can affect you as an adult, and what helps
How being bullied as a child can still show up in adult life, what the long-term studies really show, and what helps now.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Depression and low mood
Depression and low moodSituational depression: symptoms, how long it lasts and what helps
When a hard life change knocks you down: what situational depression is, how it differs from depression and grief, how long it lasts, and what helps.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Depression and low moodMen’s mental health: signs of depression in men and how to get support
Why depression in men can look like anger, drinking or overwork rather than sadness, why it gets missed, and how to find support.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Work and burnout
Work and burnoutTeacher burnout: signs, causes and how to recover
Why so many teachers are exhausted, the signs of burnout, what helps you recover, and what schools can change.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Work and burnoutSunday blues: why Sunday evenings feel heavy and how to cope
Why Sunday evenings can fill with dread, and practical ways to protect your weekend and your week.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
ADHD
ADHDManaging adult ADHD: practical strategies and therapy
Practical ways to manage focus, time and organisation as an adult with ADHD, what therapy can add, and the myths worth dropping.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
ADHDADHD in women: signs, why it is often missed, and getting help
How ADHD can look different in women, why it is so often missed, and how to get assessed and supported.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Starting therapy
Starting therapyYour first therapy session: what to expect and how to prepare
What happens in a first session, how to prepare, what to say and the questions worth asking your therapist.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Starting therapyTherapy hangover: why you can feel worse after a session
Why you can feel drained or worse after a session, what helps afterwards, and when to tell your therapist.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
Life abroad
Life abroadHomesickness and migratory grief: the losses nobody warns you about when you move abroad
Why moving abroad can feel like grief, the losses researchers describe, what culture shock really looks like, and what helps.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 11 min read
- Life abroad
Bilingual therapy: why therapy in your native language matters
Why some feelings land harder in your first language, what the research really shows, and how to find a therapist who speaks yours.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 10 min read
- Life abroad
Culture shock: the stages, the signs and how to cope
What culture shock is, what the research says about its famous stages, the common signs, and what helps you settle.
Bliss Therapy editorial team · 10 min read
Essays
- Essays
The therapist who stays silent loses the room - AI in Mental Health
Why therapists who stay out of the conversation about AI in mental health lose their say in it: an essay by Bliss founder Jona Doda.
Jona Doda · 2 min read
EssaysThe Unseen Life of the Session
How the real work of therapy goes on between sessions, in dreams, arguments and quiet moments: an essay by clinical psychologist Arilda Dushaj.
Arilda Dushaj · 4 min read
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