Dr Joseph M Carver, PhD has answered the following questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I recently found that I have mostly likely been dealing with the effects of Asperger’s Syndrome for the last 20 years or so. Not knowing exactly what it was until within the last year, I have learned to adapt to and deal with most of the negative side effects. While I have for the [...]
Q: I’m a freshman, and there’s just so much depression surrounding me. You see, my best friend used to cut her wrists, and I fear she’s reverted back to old habits. She refuses to talk to me about it, and I get that it might be a tough subject, but she shuts me out completely. [...]
Q: I’m a 20-year-old college student and have been hiding the fact that I have had imaginary friends my entire life. As a kid it’s okay — people expect it even. But I find that I spend more time talking to them and leaning on them for support than I do my “real” friends; it’s [...]
Q: I just read the question and answer about a mother enmeshed man. I was interested in your response here because I have been dating a man for almost 15 months that also lives with his mother. He has been divorced for almost three years. His mother is in fairly good health and does not [...]
Q: After a five-year marriage and a string of de facto relationships, I’ve decided I’m not marriage material. I’ve actually been explicitly told so — more than once! I’m simply not cut out for it, at least not in the sense of “happily ever after” stories. It is not the challenge of cohabiting with another, [...]
Q: When a sociopath tells a lie, do they know it’s a lie or do they believe the lie? A: A Sociopath, also known as an Antisocial Personality Disorder, is a member of a diagnostic group known as ‘Personality Disorders’ (see my introduction to personality disorders on this website). Without question, an Antisocial Personality is [...]
Q: I have been trying to read up about autism because one of my exes asked me if I’d ever been tested for it. I’m not entirely sure what to write here, but some of the things that I do make me see why she asked. I have a somewhat difficult time in social situations, [...]
