Q: I am 20 years old and have a younger brother. My relationship with my father has been nothing more than a history of abuse by him. My brother has also felt the brunt of my father’s violent rages, but he has maintained a decent relationship with him. My dad isn’t a bad person most [...]

Q: My husband and I have been married for 1.5 years. We were married after a courtship process that is typical for our culture (we are Muslim) where we didn’t really get to know each other, but through a few talks we chose to marry anyway. Our life was absolutely perfect, however. We had our [...]

Q: I’m twenty-two years old, married, and for the most part, happy. But lately I’ve been having bouts of bad anger directed toward the people I care about most, including my husband and my best friend, over petty issues. When I have these episodes, I know how I’m reacting is wrong, but I can’t seem [...]

Q: My wife is out of control with her pack rat/hoarding behavior. She is a mental health technician, so she knows she has a problem. I have begged her to get help, but she refuses (out of pride and concern for her profession). I also have a four-year-old grandson who has ADHD (and is currently [...]

Q: My boyfriend and I have been together for 3 years. He has a 5-year-old son from a previous relationship. My boyfriend has extreme anger issues. He also has zero patience. He can go from 0-60 in seconds over nothing. He is not physical with his anger, but he yells and curses a lot. It [...]

Q: I am a young stay at home mom, and my husband works at a very high pressure job. As we have a young baby, there are times when we both are tired and stressed out and so we do have fights, which I suppose is normal. We get over them fairly quickly. However, when [...]

Q: The 37-year-old daughter of some friends of mine was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder a year ago. She was given this diagnosis following an episode of prolonged, severely abusive behavior toward her parents and some physical destruction of their home. The episode was set off by a recent break-up with a boyfriend, and most of [...]