The following questions are related to ‘Aggression’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: My fiancée and I have agreed to go to counseling. He told me a year ago he was abused sexually as a child and since he confided in me our relationship has been awful. He has control issues and is super hyper-vigilant about what he deems a threat from me, usually resulting in him [...]
Q: To the outside world, my son is friendly, outgoing, polite, kind, and considerate. He can be this way at home, too, unless something doesn’t go his way or he feels he is being treated unfairly. If this happens, he has angry and frightening verbal outbursts that seem out of his control. When he recovers, [...]
Q: I am neither a psychopath nor a sociopath. I show mixed traits: the cunning of a psychopath and the destructiveness far worse than a sociopath. I don’t manipulate people, I eat away at their conscious leaving them comatose into me like a virus. I’ve been to ten specialists and none know my symptoms. I [...]
Q: I have some problems with swearing and it is affecting my relationship with my fiancée. I love her too much and we will be married this year. I can’t live without her so most of the time I stay at her place and I sleep in her room but I never touch her physically. [...]
Q: Is there a medication known to man, to treat chronic anxiety on a long term basis, which does not contain antidepressants? My body reacts negitively to antidepressants. Currently I am taking 200mg sertraline daily and I have such anxiety pain in my heart. I’ve been on this medication 2 months and my doctor keeps [...]
Q: I am a supportive husband of a spouse who is dealing with an abusive mother. Your earlier article about dealing with an abusive mother describes our situation exactly. I’ve often recommended that my wife disconnect herself from her abusive mother (and sister) while maintaining her relationships with her two brothers. Unfortunately, it is easier [...]
Q: I am very worried about my son who is approaching his 5th birthday. He is very loud, aggressive, argumentative, always runs off in shops, and hurts his 1-year-old sister. He has been at infant school since Sept 07 and has already punched a boy resulting in a black eye, bit another child and kicked [...]
