Guides
Allow five to ten minutes per guide. None of them replaces the advice of a health professional.
1Attention and ADHD
Are online ADHD tests accurate?
What an online ADHD questionnaire can point to, what it cannot establish, and how to spot a serious one. Figures and dated sources.
ADHD or anxiety: what sets them apart
Restlessness, focus, sleep: what the two pictures have in common, what their timeline reveals, and why an online questionnaire settles nothing between them.
ADHD or autism: what actually sets them apart
What the two profiles share, what sets them apart in everyday situations, and why an online questionnaire cannot decide between them. Dated, sourced figures.
ADHD in adult women
Why attention difficulties are picked up later in adult women, what research has actually measured, and what an online questionnaire can and cannot indicate.
The adult ADHD assessment pathway in France
Who refers you, who can carry out an adult ADHD assessment in France, how many steps are involved and what is known about waiting times. Dated sources.
ADHD or giftedness: what each one describes
What each of the two notions actually describes, why the confusion is so common, and why asking which of the two is the wrong question. Dated sources.
How much does an ADHD assessment cost in England?
What an adult ADHD assessment costs on the NHS and privately in England, what is covered, how long the wait is, and which figures are not published at all.
2Autism spectrum
I think I'm autistic: what to do now
Six practical steps when the question comes up in adulthood: record old situations, talk to your doctor, learn the real waiting times, act while you wait.
Is the term Asperger's still used?
What the term Asperger's described, the exact date it left the classifications, what is written in its place today, and why the word keeps circulating.
Autism in adult women and social masking
What social masking is, what it looks like day to day, why it delays recognition in adult women and what it costs. Figures and dated publications listed.
Are online autism tests for adults accurate?
What an online autism questionnaire for adults can point to, what it cannot establish, and how to spot a serious one. Studies and dated sources.
3Work exhaustion and anxiety
Burnout or depression: what actually separates them
What burnout and depression have in common, what sets them apart, and why an online questionnaire cannot decide between the two. Figures and dated sources.
Generalised anxiety: the signs described in the literature
What separates ordinary worry from worry that lasts: duration, breadth, impact and physical signs. Figures and dated sources throughout the whole page.
4Personality and relationships
Attachment styles explained
The four styles defined one by one, where the model comes from, what research found about their stability, and why they are not categories of person at all.
The Big Five model explained
The five factors, what a high and a low score describe for each of them, where the model comes from, and why no factor is better than another. Not a grade.
MBTI vs Big Five: what each one rests on
What each one measures, how a type differs from a dimension, what reliability studies report, and which to choose to understand yourself. Dated sources.
The mental load: what it is, and how it gets measured
What separates the mental load from the housework actually done, why it stays invisible, and how much of it research has genuinely managed to measure.
5Method and transparency
Giftedness: what a questionnaire can and cannot tell you
An online questionnaire does not measure an IQ. What it actually collects, how a real assessment works, and why free tests still display a precise number.
How we build our questionnaires
Where our items come from, how the score is calculated, why no published scale is reproduced, and what our questionnaires never do. Written out in plain terms.
Self-observation scales explained
What published scales on attention, autism and work exhaustion actually measure, what "validated" really means, and why licensing terms matter online.