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 am a 56-year-old married woman. I am also a grandmother. I love stuffed animals. I like to sleep with them, and I like to bring them in and out of the car with me. I also like to have them when I am watching TV. My husband does not seem to mind. I [...]
Q: Please help me. I am so confused I honestly don’t know what to do. I am 18 years old and a freshman in college. I was made fun of a lot throughout my school years. Because of this, I find I am very shy and tend to be quiet. One of my friends and [...]
Q: I have been in a relationship with my boyfriend for about four years now. When we first started dating, he was fun and exciting and we did so much stuff together. I do love him a lot, to the fullest extent you possibly can care about someone. I have just noticed over the past [...]
Q: I’m writing after reading several articles on your site that give me such solid explanations for what I have just been experiencing. My question is this: If I have been a victim of an abusive relationship — my husband has a history of psychiatric issues, and I think it is Narcissistic Personality Disorder — [...]
Q: How would you define the parameters of a healthy support group? For example, many so-called support groups have leaders with a certain agenda that may or may not be shared by the members. If questioned, egos and emotion get in the way of being supportive. I have seen it happen to every group from [...]
Q: About 3 years ago, I broke off a friendship with someone who was growing more and more demanding, thoughtless, and even mean to me. At the time of the breakup I began receiving posts from strangers whose messages are vaguely hostile, insulting and make uncanny references to details of my life and interests. After [...]
Q: Recently I have had a lot of thoughts about dying. It has never bothered me before, and nothing has happened recently to anyone close to me. I seem to get really worried and instantly start imagining something happening such as a car wreck or another horrific event. It happens multiple times a day, and [...]
