Ever since I was 13 I have been in the mental health system. It’s hard to explain, but I met this girl at school when I was 14 and she had Borderline Personality Disorder. She was not yet diagnosed but was at 18, so I didn’t know that at the time. We went through a [...]

Q: I genuinely hate people, at a core level. This creates an amount of constant anxiety which I’ve been treating with a combination of Zoloft (50mg/day) and Klonopin (2mg/day). Klonopin helps greatly with the anxiety, Zoloft helps to calm the racing thoughts I have, and then every once in a while I’ll smoke marijuana because [...]

Q: I’m a 19-year-old college student who has OCD and anxiety disorder. After a night of binge drinking on a Thursday night (about five days ago), I woke up and felt more anxious than I’ve ever felt before. I constantly felt like I was on the verge of a panic attack for that entire day [...]

Q: I need help with my mother. She is 54 years old and lives alone. My father passed away a few years ago, and since then she has basically lived the same isolated life. But for a few years now she has been increasingly paranoid about where she lives. She constantly moves from apartment to [...]

Q: I’m 19 years old, studying abroad and away from my family. Being away from them is not a problem and I’m quite independent. This whole problem has started with my mind always thinking and never shutting up. Recently it has been just too much. Whenever I sit to do my assignments my mind just [...]

Q: Every time it’s going to storm I panic. I worry a tornado might come, or something serious might happen. I get so scared, and part of the problem is not having a basement or a safe room to go to, or anyone I know who has one that I can go to. I have [...]

Q: I’ve been having almost daily crying spells lately and feel on the verge of hyperventilating when I wake up in the morning. In the last two years my father died after suffering for three months in the hospital, and my mother was diagnosed with cancer; I was her primary caregiver until she died a [...]