Self-Help Articles on Depression, Phobias, Improving Marriages, Addiction, Insomnia, Losing Weight, Saving Money and More

This self-help series contains articles with advice on overcoming or coping with several kinds of problems. They include:

• Depression
• Marriage difficulties and family relations
• Parenting
• Stalking, bullying and teasing
• Anger problems
• Unemployment
• Addiction
• Anxiety problems like worry, phobias, panic and obsessive-compulsive disorder
• Recovering from some traumatic experiences
• Life-threatening illness (mainly cancer and alzheimer's/dementia)
• Self-harm, like eating disorders and self-injury
• Severe Mental Illness Like Schizophrenia
• Grief and loneliness
• Insomnia
• Thinking Skills, Memory and Motivation
• Saving money
• Protection from fraudsters
• Losing weight and eating healthily

Articles in this Self-Help series

• Overcoming Depression and Worry.
• Helping a Husband or Wife Over Depression.
• Fighting Depression - Changing Thinking Patterns from Negative to Positive, While Being Realistic.

• Improving a Marriage Instead of Getting a Divorce.
• Healing a Marriage After an Affair.
• Wanting More Sex With a Marriage Partner:
  Instalment One: Why Sex with Your Husband or Wife is Important for the Marriage, Some Causes of Low Sexual Desire, and Things That Can Boost Sexual Desire.
  Instalment Two: Things a Person Who Wants More Sex Can Do to Entice Their Husband or Wife to Want More, and Talking About Sex.
• Saving a Marriage When a Loved One Wants Divorce.
• Getting On Better With Difficult Older Parents.

• Caring for a Baby
  Instalment One: Helping Babies Stop Crying and Sleep Longer at Night, Playing With and Talking to Them.
  Instalment Two: Feeding the Baby.
  Instalment Three: Baby Health and Safety.
• Looking After a Toddler or Young Child or Children.
• Parenting Difficult Teenagers.
• Advice For Parents and Friends of Someone Who's Started Going Out With a Possible Abuser.

• Protecting Yourself From a Stalker.
• How Schools Can Reduce Bullying.
• Ways Teachers Can Try To Stop or Reduce Bullying
  Instalment One: Helping to Make the School a More Caring Environment Where Bullying is Not Tolerated and Bullies are Encouraged to Change.
  Instalment Two: Teaching Children Bullying is Unacceptable, Conflict Resolution Skills and Problem-Solving Techniques, and Research on Bullying.
  Instalment Three: Increasing Pupils' Sensitivity to Victims' Feelings, Teaching Ways to Control Anger, Fun, and Discussing Types of Bullying in Class.
  Instalment Four: Considering Bullies' Backgrounds, Motivating Them to Change, Helping Bullying Victims, and Using and Teaching Stress Management Techniques.
• Protecting Yourself From Being Teased At School.
• Reducing Verbal Abuse from Work Colleagues.

• Learning to Control Anger.

• Coping With Unemployment.

• Conquering Any Kind of Addiction or Craving.
• Helping an Alcoholic Husband Want to Get Sober.

• Stopping Worry Ruining Your Life.
• Calming Generalised Anxiety Disorder or Worry.
• Getting Cured of Agoraphobia and Panic Disorder.
• Getting Over Panic Attacks and Hospital Phobia.
• Getting Rid of Animal and Insect Phobias.
• Recovering from Social Phobia:
  Instalment One: Changing Thinking Patterns, Relaxation and Conversational Skills.
  Instalment Two: Disagreements, Worry, Dating, Feeling More Positive, Relaxation and Job Interview Tips.
  Instalment Three: Upsetting Mental Images, Criticism, Assertiveness, Blushing, and Changing Behaviour.
• Conquering Distressing Abhorrent OCD Thoughts.
• Recovery from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD).

• Healing from the Trauma of Rape.
• Healing from the Trauma of Domestic Violence.
• Learning to Enjoy Life Again After Abuse or Childhood Neglect.

• Increasing the Quality of Life for Someone With a Life-Threatening Illness Like Cancer.
• Caring For Someone With Alzheimer's Disease or Other Dementia.

• How Life Can Improve For People With Anorexia.
• Stopping Yourself Wanting to Self-Injure.

• Helping Someone With Schizophrenia or Bipolar Disorder.

• Easing the Pain of Grief and Loneliness.

• Getting Over Insomnia.

• Sharpening Thinking and Making Safer More Insightful Judgments and Decisions
  Instalment One: Some of the Most Important Decisions People Will Ever Make, How Emotions Can Influence Them, And Trying Not to Make Overly-Hasty Judgments.
  Instalment Two: Blame for Major Mistakes, Reducing Arguments, Wrongly Judging by Outward Appearances, and When Facts Seem to Contradict Common Sense.
• Techniques for Increasing the Ability to Remember Things.
• Debating More Skilfully and Detecting Others’ Bad Reasoning.
• Motivation Tips and Advice.
• Don't Believe Everything You Read and Hear.

• Advice on Saving Money and Avoiding Being Manipulated into Spending it Unwisely.

• How to Avoid Falling for Many False Claims or Fears of the Supernatural.
• Links to Advice on Consumer Protection - Scams, Rogue Traders, Loan Sharks and Psychic Frauds.
  (This one's a selection of links to articles on other websites.)

• Triumphing Over Obesity and Lesser Fat Problems.
• Some Healthy Foods, and What The Vitamins and Minerals in Them Do.

The articles on this website are written by Diana Holbourn.

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