Q: Our 10-year-old boy refuses to sleep alone all of a sudden. He shares a room with his sister, and they have bunk beds. He has always been very difficult to get to sleep. He always procrastinates. But now he is insisting on sleeping in his sister’s bed. She is 8 and hates to sleep [...]

Q: Why am I so concerned with the fact that my ex husband is dating a divorced mother of two children? He was abusive to me and my two children, but not with the child he and I had together. I feel sorry for this new woman. I want to contact her to say stay [...]

Q: I am a 23-year-old male living in the Washington, D.C. area. I have noticed that in the past year or so that I have become extremely angry sometimes. I have always considered myself a happy person and have excelled at my customer service job, which requires me to be so — but I have [...]

Q: My son is an overall good kid, but over the past year or so he has been getting into a lot of fights. It seems he is the one who starts most of them. He has done community service twice for this. He is ADHD and takes Focalin 10 mg 3 x day. He [...]

Q: Thank you for taking the time to listen… I have been married for almost 7 years to a man whom I feel may have some serious mental disorder, and I don’t know where to turn. It’s hard to know where to start… Rich’s good qualities are that he is charming, charismatic, very intelligent and [...]

Q: So I eloped with an old friend (we’ll call him Charlie) almost a month ago. That alone is something most people consider insane…but I’m happy with my decision, and I’ll be moving down south with him in about a month. We’ll both be attending college. This is probably the best decision I’ve made for [...]

Q: My boyfriend lost his mum about 7 years ago and now he has funny turns and a very short temper. The other night he had a turn, and he was telling me to let him go and kill himself so he could be with his mum because that’s where he wants to be, and [...]