How to help yourself

As Linda Blair's weekly advice slot comes to an end, she reveals her nine golden rules of therapy

Next week: My husband is an attention-seeker

Whenever my husband has a cold, headache or toothache, he acts as if he is dying. I feel I cannot take his complaints seriously any more and I am becoming increasingly annoyed by his attitude

I have an eating phobia

I am in my mid-20s and suffer from some kind of eating phobia. I have been trying to diet for about four years, but since getting engaged, I have been eating less and less

The birthday present

When her husband turned 40, Charla Muller offered him guaranteed sex every night for a whole year. Could they manage it? By Stuart Jeffries

I didn’t love my baby

Experience: It's the one thing you can rely on, all the pregnancy books said. That indescribable rush of love when they put the baby on your belly for the first time.