ALPIMS • Understanding & support

Welcome to ALPIMS

ALPIMS is an organising framework, not a medical diagnosis.

A place to explore overlapping needs, understand more of the picture and find what may help.

It may be helpful if you experience anxiety, bodily symptoms or ongoing illness alongside emotional, mental health or sensory difficulties.

These experiences may occur with neurodivergence, but you do not need to be neurodivergent to find ALPIMS useful.

You can start small.

You do not need a diagnosis, a complete explanation or enough energy to read everything. Choose the part that feels useful today.

Choose a starting point

How do I feel right now?

Start with what you are noticing and explore a gentle next step.

Start with a check-in

Find tools and support

Explore practical ways to make everyday life more manageable.

Explore tools & resources

Understand the picture

Learn about complex experiences and needs that may overlap.

Explore complex & overlapping

What is ALPIMS? • Open a short explanation

ALPIMS brings together six areas of experience. It offers a way to organise information and consider needs and supports together.

A — Anxiety & autonomic: anxiety, stress responses and automatic body regulation.
L — Laxity: joint flexibility, connective tissue and stability.
P — Pain: pain and bodily sensitivity.
I — Immune: immune and inflammatory experiences.
M — Mood: mood and mental health.
S — Sensory: sensory and neurodevelopmental experiences.

You may relate to one area or several. Overlap does not mean there is one cause for everything, or that everyone needs the same support.

Your symptoms deserve to be understood in context. Physical symptoms should not automatically be attributed to anxiety or mental health. ALPIMS does not establish the cause of symptoms or replace assessment.

Learn more about the six ALPIMS domains

Looking for a particular topic? Explore neurodivergence , family patterns or lived experience stories .