--- title: "Psychology articles: anxiety, couples, parenting" description: "Plain answers to frequent questions about anxiety, sleep, relationships, children and hypnotherapy — with sources under every research article." url: https://manasiway.com/en/articles/ lang: en updated: 2026-09-27 tokens: 1836 --- # Articles and explainers Plain answers to frequent questions about how the work is done. ## Sections - Anxiety and panic attacks *5* - Family and relationships *5* - Children and parents *5* - Self-development *5* - Modern life *6* - Methods and process *6* ## Anxiety and panic attacks - [Anxiety: where normal ends](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/anxiety-normal-or-not/) — Where a normal reaction ends and something worth looking into begins. - [Panic attack: what to do](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/panic-attack-what-to-do/) — What happens in the body during an attack and what to do while it lasts. - [Why panic comes back](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/why-panic-comes-back/) — Why a single episode turns into a way of life — and where the loop can be broken. - [Bedtime anxiety](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/bedtime-anxiety/) — Why your mind switches on when the light goes out, and what you can change this week. - [Rumination](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/rumination/) — How replaying differs from thinking things through, and how to step out of the loop. ## Family and relationships - [Why couples argue in circles](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/why-couples-argue-in-circles/) — A repeating argument has a script, and the script is stronger than any trigger. - [Silence in a couple](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/silence-in-a-couple/) — Two kinds of silence look alike from the outside; from the inside there is no mistaking them. Three questions to tell them apart. - [How to talk about money](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/talking-about-money/) — The argument is often not only about money — it is also about safety, freedom and fairness. - [A crisis of trust](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/trust-crisis/) — Can trust be rebuilt after infidelity? Not always, but many couples manage it. Three conditions that matter for this. - [Alone or together](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/alone-or-together/) — “My partner won’t come” is not a dead end. When to come as a couple, and when to come alone. ## Children and parents - [A teenager who has shut down](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/teenager-shut-down/) — The more insistent the interrogation, the deeper the defence. What works instead of questioning. - [Childhood anxiety](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/childhood-anxiety/) — What is normal for their age and what is not, what makes anxiety stronger and what helps. - [Children and divorce](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/child-and-divorce/) — What must be said, what must never be said and when a specialist is needed. - [Childhood trauma](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/childhood-trauma/) — Not every upset is trauma. The difference lies not only in the event but also in the formula “force of the blow × support at hand”. - [Why a psychologist “just plays”](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/play-therapy/) — Play is the language in which a child tells you what they cannot say in words. ## Self-development - [Inner critic](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/inner-critic/) — Where it came from, why “just don’t listen to it” doesn’t work, and what does. - [Burnout is not laziness](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/burnout-is-not-laziness/) — Three signs of burnout, why a holiday is not enough and where recovery starts. - [Boundaries without guilt](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/boundaries-without-guilt/) — Where the guilt after saying no comes from, three myths about boundaries and how to practise saying no. - [Self-esteem](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/self-esteem/) — Why self-esteem drops and what helps instead of telling yourself to love yourself. - [Procrastination](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/procrastination/) — What gets put off is the feeling attached to the task, not the task itself. Why willpower does not help here. ## Modern life - [Phone and doomscrolling](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/phone-and-doomscrolling/) — Why it is so sticky, an honest self-test and what works against the feed. - [Digital burnout](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/digital-burnout/) — What has changed, the signs that it is time to step in, and what actually helps. - [Adult ADHD](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/adult-adhd/) — Why everyone recognises themselves and why self-diagnosis is harmful either way. - [News anxiety](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/news-anxiety/) — How “being informed” turns into “being anxious”, and what to do about it. - [Loneliness in a big city](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/urban-loneliness/) — Why a city has so many people and so few connections — and what to do about it. - [An AI companion instead of a psychologist](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/ai-companion/) — What AI does reasonably well, where the line runs and how to use it sensibly. ## Methods and process - [How a first consultation goes](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/first-session/) — Step by step: before the session, the first minutes, the main part and what you are left with afterwards. - [Why sessions differ in length](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/session-length/) — An hour, two hours or fifty minutes — what lies behind each figure in the price list. - [Hypnotherapy: the research](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/hypnotherapy-evidence/) — Where the data is strong, where it is modest and where it is not enough — with links to the primary sources. - [What online tests measure](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/what-tests-measure/) — What the total score shows, how to read the result and when a test will not help. - [Is therapy working?](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/is-therapy-working/) — Early and mid-stage signs, the main criterion and when it is time to finish. - [Online or in person](https://manasiway.com/en/articles/online-or-in-person/) — What stays the same, what online offers, what the consulting room offers, and which suits whom. ## See also - [Tests](https://manasiway.com/en/tests/) — short self-observation tests - [Audio practices](https://manasiway.com/en/programs/) — guided self-hypnosis recordings - [Individual therapy](https://manasiway.com/en/consultations/) — one-to-one work on what you bring - [Booking](https://manasiway.com/en/booking/) — choose a format and book --- HTML version: https://manasiway.com/en/articles/ · Booking: https://manasiway.com/en/booking/ · WhatsApp: https://wa.me/77025360139 · Telegram: https://t.me/Lyudmila_manasiway