1. What is attachment? 2. How does an attachment grow stronger? 3. The brain science around attachment. 4. The safe place and co-regulation. 5. What is an unhealthy attachment style? 6. Anxious, controlling or helicopter parenting. 7. Attachment trauma. 8. A healing adult relationship. 9. Resilience, bad days and top tips!
Foreword by Dr. Amita Jassi and Isobel Heyman 7
Acknowledgements 9
What's This Book About? 11
Chapter 1. Worrying 13
Chapter 2. Poisoning of the Mind 18
Chapter 3. Only Human 22
Chapter 4. Guilty Mind 31
Chapter 5. Am I Going Mad? 36
Chapter 6. Learning to Count 41
Chapter 7. Keeping My Secret 45
Chapter 8. Learning to Walk the Walk 49
Chapter 9. OCD Abroad 52
Chapter 10. Getting Help 60
Chapter 11. Convincing Myself of OCD's
Irrationality 68
Chapter 12. Challenging 72
Chapter 13. Depression and OCD 78
Chapter 14. Citalopram 83
Chapter 15. The Awful Truth 94
Chapter 16. Getting On With It 99
Chapter 17: 16 Years Later
Epilogue. The 30 20 Diary 105
Appendix 1. Definition of OCD and CBT 110
Appendix 2. OCD Tips and Advice 114
Further Information 121
Index 125
1. So You're Trans? 2. Gender Roles Are Dead. 3. Telling the World (Or not!) 4. What Do I Call You? 5. Being You (Whoever That Is) 6. Dysphoria: The Monster. 7. Puberty & How To Cope. 8. Hormone blockers & Cross Hormones. 9. Genitals, Parts, Junk - What Suits Best? 10. Surgeries. 11. Dating as a Trans Person. 12. Awkward Trans Tales. 13. Dealing With the Media. 14. Documenting Your Journey. 15. Don't Get Mad-Get Even! 16. More Than Just Trans. 17. Self Care & How to Help Others. 18. Hopes For the Future. 19. Resources & Cool People. Appendix.
1. The Development of Literacy Skills
2. When Literacy Development Goes Wrong: Literacy Disorders
3. Beyond the Single Deficit Model: Explaining Individual Differences
4. Beyond the Single Deficit Model: Explaining Co-occurrence
5. Assessment and Formulation of Literacy Difficulties
6. Assessing Children with Co-occurring Difficulties
7. Literacy Interventions
8. Beyond Literacy Intervention
9. Bilingualism: A Sociocultural Risk Factor
10. Extreme Prematurity: A Neurological Risk Factor
Acknowledgement; Preface; 1. An Introduction to the Sensory System; How it's Supposed to Work; The Sensory Continuum; A Note on Differences; 2. Sensory Thresholds; The High Threshold/ Poor Registration Child; The Under Responsive Child; The Sensory Seeker; Body Awareness; The Low Threshold/ Highly Responsive Child; The Sensory Sensitive Child; The Sensory Averse Child; A Sensory Indulgent Child: The Self-Regulation Piece; 3. A Cautionary Tale; Finally
Introduction: Social Anxiety & Me. 1. What the Hell is it and Why it is Happening to Me? 2. How Do I Make it Go Away? 3. The School Years. 4. My Big Break(down). 5. The Party Crasher. 6. The Tiger, the Bully and the Frenemy. 7. Advice for Caregivers. 8. Take Action! 9. And Finally... 10. Glossary of Madness.