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: My wife was given Invega (antipsychotic drug) for 7 days while in a psychiatric hospital. She stopped taking it when she was released from the clinic. She’s now experiencing a feeling of internal restlessness as well as shakiness (tremors in her hands or involuntary movements in both her hands) — symptoms she did not [...]
Q: I would like to know how to stop a family curse. My mother had an abusive father who never showed an ounce of love to any of his children after the first one; there were 13 children. All of them had and have issues pertaining to this terrible upbringing. My Grandmother was a very [...]
I just read your article about ADHD. I found many great ideas in how to understand and work with my children, but I have a few things I would like to ask you. I have 3 boys (almost 12, almost 10 and 5 and a half). The first one has ADD (inattentive type) and tends [...]
Q: I am 19 years old, and currently attend college. I have pretty much everything I could ask for in my life — a great family, great friends, and money to afford to go to school. However, there is one thing missing, and this one thing causes me to hate my life because it’s all [...]
Q: I have great insecurity when it comes to intimacy and dating. The idea of getting romantically intimate with anyone makes me want to flee. I haven’t dated in seven years. I don’t want to stay single forever. Please tell me what makes someone so insecure about intimacy, and how do I deal with it? [...]
Q: My boyfriend of 8 months and I have a very strong relationship. However, he finished a course of steroids around 5 months back and while he suffered no side effects, now he seems to have lost motivation for going to work, family, me, the gym, etc. He says he has no sex drive and [...]
Q: I have a girlfriend. She is 24, but as mature as a 40-year-old — intelligent, wise, imaginative, romantic, sensitive, emotional. She values true feelings and truth in front of any human quality. But she says she has supernatural powers. She says she can: cook eggs in her hands, move objects with her mind, change [...]
