Anxiety and Stress
For when the pressure has stopped feeling manageable. Posts in this category explore anxiety, overthinking, burnout, sleep difficulties, exam stress, and work-related stress - what they actually involve psychologically, and what tends to help.
When Your Adult Child Knows a Language You Were Never Taught
Parenting a psychologically informed generation when your own upbringing was defined by pushing through is more complicated than it looks. This post explores the tensions on both sides honestly.
Dr Erin Reid
May 244 min read
Why Couples Keep Having the Same Argument — and What It is Usually About
Recurring conflict in relationships is rarely about the surface issue. This post explores the patterns beneath repeated arguments and what can help shift them.
Dr Erin Reid
May 33 min read
The Weight of High Expectations — The Bar is Always Just Out of Reach
High expectations — from yourself, from others, or from the world you grew up in — can drive achievement and quietly erode wellbeing at the same time. This post explores the psychological cost and what might help.
Dr Erin Reid
Apr 192 min read
Why High Achievers Often Struggle Most to Ask for Help
People who manage complexity well at work often find it hardest to acknowledge when they need support. This post explores the psychological dynamic behind that pattern.
Dr Erin Reid
Apr 122 min read
Why Overthinking is Not a Thinking Problem
Overthinking is often approached as something to think your way out of. This post explores why that rarely works — and what overthinking is usually a signal of.
Dr Erin Reid
Mar 233 min read
What Burnout Actually is — and Why Rest Alone Does Not Fix It
Burnout is widely misunderstood as exhaustion that resolves with time off. This post looks at what burnout actually involves psychologically, and what genuine recovery requires
Dr Erin Reid
Mar 83 min read
High-Functioning Anxiety: When Everything Looks Fine But it Isn’t
High-functioning anxiety often goes unrecognised because it can look like conscientiousness, competence, and drive. This post explores what it actually involves — and how it differs from other conditions that can look similar.
Dr Erin Reid
Mar 13 min read
Parenting Adult Children: When the Role Has to Change
The transition from parenting a child to having an adult-to-adult relationship with them is one of the least discussed challenges of midlife. This post explores what that shift requires and what gets in the way.
Dr Erin Reid
Feb 155 min read
'Failure' to Launch: Parenting Adult Children in 2026
Adult children in 2026 are facing a different world from the one their parents launched into. This post explores the psychological and practical dimensions of so called ‘failure to launch’ - including the role neurodiversity can play.
Dr Erin Reid
Feb 15 min read
When You and Your Teenager Don’t Seem to Speak the Same Language
Not every parent-teenager relationship is built on obvious common ground. This post explores what connection actually requires during adolescence — and how to find it when shared interests are absent.
Dr Erin Reid
Jan 114 min read
The Sandwich Generation: When You Are Holding Up Everyone Except Yourself
Many people in midlife find themselves simultaneously caring for their children and supporting ageing parents — with very little left over for themselves. This post explores what that life stage actually involves psychologically.
Dr Erin Reid
Jan 44 min read
Why So Many Women Reach Adulthood Without an ADHD Diagnosis — and What That Experience Involves
Many women reach midlife before anyone considers ADHD as an explanation for what they have been experiencing. This post explores why late diagnosis is so common — and what the undiagnosed years tend to involve.
Dr Erin Reid
Dec 7, 20253 min read
Why Sleep Problems Are Rarely Just About Sleep
Sleep difficulties are one of the most common reasons people seek support — and one of the most consistently misunderstood. This post explores what sleep problems often signal and how therapy can help.
Dr Erin Reid
Nov 30, 20253 min read
Infertility, Pregnancy Loss, and Birth Trauma: The Grief Nobody Prepares You For
Infertility, miscarriage, and birth trauma involve losses that are real and significant — and that are often inadequately acknowledged by the world around them. This post explores what that experience involves psychologically.
Dr Erin Reid
Nov 23, 20253 min read
Sexual Difficulties: What They Often Signal and How Therapy Can Help
Sexual difficulties are among the most common and least spoken about reasons people seek therapy. This post explores what they often signal — and how psychological support can help.
Dr Erin Reid
Nov 16, 20252 min read
Work Difficulties: When the Problem Is Not Just the Job
Work difficulties are one of the most common reasons people seek therapy. This post explores what is often actually going on beneath the surface — and why the problem is rarely just the job.
Dr Erin Reid
Nov 2, 20253 min read
Trauma: What It Actually Is and Why It Stays
Trauma is widely misunderstood. This post explores what it actually involves psychologically, why it persists long after the event, and what therapeutic support can offer.
Dr Erin Reid
Oct 26, 20253 min read
Academic and Exam Stress: When the Pressure Becomes Something More
Academic pressure affects students of all ages — and when it becomes chronic, it can develop into something more significant than ordinary stress. This post explores what that experience involves and when support might help.
Dr Erin Reid
Oct 19, 20253 min read
When Your Body Becomes Part of the Story: Living with Physical Health Challenges
Living with a physical health condition affects more than the body. This post explores the psychological dimensions of chronic illness and physical health challenges — and what therapy can offer.
Dr Erin Reid
Oct 12, 20252 min read
Grief: What Bereavement Actually Involves and Why It Takes as Long as It Takes
Grief is one of the most significant experiences a person can go through, and one of the most poorly understood. This post explores what bereavement actually involves — and why it cannot be hurried.
Dr Erin Reid
Oct 5, 20253 min read
