Q: I am 23 years old. I’m an outgoing and positive person. I have always been very emotional, but for about a month now I get really nervous, impatient and/or restless. I don’t want to go out. I prefer to stay home because I think that outside I will get more and more irritated by [...]

Q: I think that maybe I have dissociative identity disorder. I know for a fact that I am clinically depressed. I was diagnosed with depression about five years ago, and it hasn’t gotten any easier. This was the first red flag for me. My personality shifts rapidly… sometimes. I never know when I’m going to [...]

Q: I recently married a man I love dearly. But we aren’t living together yet and, to make matters worse, he is living with his ex’s parents. He has three teenage daughters, and only one likes me. He spends the whole weekend with his daughters. He spends some week days with me but I have [...]

Q: My wife is a 56-year-old mental health nurse who has been going through menopause and has recently become somewhat obsessed with her health. In particular, she has been experiencing periodic, daily heart palpitations for four to six months. She doesn’t sleep properly, hates her job, is always down and isn’t able to control her [...]

Q: I would like to know if I’m claustrophobic or not, and whether it’s serious or not. I’ve been ignoring it my whole life, but I’ve started to feel that maybe it’s not right. Well, I think it started when I was a child. I heard my mother talking about a man who was buried [...]

Q: I am a 20-year-old female. I have been in this state for a long time. I feel weird around people. I always think people close to me are looking at me. I feel nervous and sometimes have problems in swallowing saliva. I am scared and sometimes can’t look directly into someone’s eyes, especially when [...]

Q: I’m a 20-year-old girl who’s suffering from paralysing social self-doubt and anxiety. I don’t know if I really have a medical condition, but your advice would help me a lot. I am a Chinese immigrant in Australia; I’ve been here for at least nine years now. From the outside I look like someone totally [...]