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Between and during periods, there is more room to act than it feels like. These posts are about what you can actually influence: sleep during active periods, stress, a personal emergency routine for attacks, movement, and mindfulness — without miracle promises. From my own experience as a cluster headache patient since age 18.
Not medical advice. Not psychotherapy.
What to do when a cluster period lands on a birthday, holiday, or wedding, and how to protect the day's meaning without denying the pain in it.
Read articleIf there is no partner or family member in the house, who do you call at 3 a.m.? How counseling helps you build that network before you need it.
Read articleWhy the fear of a cluster headache attack starting in public runs so deep, and what actually helps when avoidance starts running your life.
Read articleCluster headache can turn your own body into a threat: constant scanning, lost trust in physical sensations, feeling attacked from inside.
Read articleMindfulness is not a painkiller for cluster headache. But as a tool for the psychosocial space around attacks, dread, and exhaustion, it can make a real difference.
Read articleFear of triggering attacks keeps many patients sedentary. Here is what an active lifestyle with cluster headache can realistically look like.
Read articleA personal routine won't reduce the pain of a cluster attack. It reduces the chaos. Here is what to prepare, and why it helps more than you expect.
Read articleStress feels like the obvious culprit when cluster attacks arrive. This post untangles the trigger myth from the real benefit of stress management: quality of life, not neurological control.
Read articleSleep disruption during active cluster bouts is brutal and real. This post covers what psychosocial strategies help, and what counseling can do when dread of bedtime sets in.
Read articleCluster headache patients routinely underreport at neurology appointments. Counseling addresses the psychosocial roots of that silence, and changes what you can say.
Read articleThe weeks after a cluster period can feel disorienting: flat, fragile, full of quiet questions. Stefan Kohlweg on what counseling can offer in that specific window.
Read articleThe cluster period is over, but you can't simply pick up where you left off. Stefan Kohlweg on the practical, relational difficulty of re-entering normal life.
Read articleA short written plan cuts decision-load during attacks. Here is what to include, when to write it, and a template the two of you can copy.
Read articlePsychosocial counselling only — not medical advice, not psychotherapy. In a crisis, contact your local emergency services.
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