Q: Is it possible to be diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder if there are only obsessions and no compulsions? My boyfriend has suffered since childhood with obsessive thoughts of guilt, such as ‘I am responsible for the upcoming death of my classmate’, ‘I robbed the priest’s car’, ‘I have killed certain people’ etc. — which have [...]

Q: Ever since I had a baby (3 years ago) my husband and I lost our intimacy. I was too tired and sex went out the window. Now my husband feels lonely and left out. He even thinks that I don’t love him anymore. I really do love him and try to make some time [...]

Q: My daughter is 19 (will be 20 in a month). She met a man online this past January and has been talking to him every day by telephone and computer. She now says she loves him and he loves her. He lives 3 hours away from us (we are in NY) and lives in [...]

Q: My daughter is 34 and recently completed her college program in chemistry, after many delays and failures in her 20s, including a “career” in club dancing….and ended up securing a very good job at an international company. She appears to be doing very well at it. This is quite a change from her earlier [...]

Q: I am extremely concerned about my boyfriend; he has severe mood swings, but nothing like depression then happiness — more like normal behavoir and then erratic spurts of rage at the smallest things. His behavior isn’t just with/towards me, but with everyone around him. He snaps without cause (though he might have one in [...]

Q: My son who is 21 got into a Ouija Board and since has had some really off the wall ideas that people are with him… He sits by himself, as if he is talking to someone. This weekend has been extremely bad. He has hardly eaten. He goes upstairs and sits on our deck [...]

Q: Recently, a young teenager has confided to me her apparent move into the world of ‘Emo’. She has stated that she believes she is “full” Emo. Her speech is very dark, she speaks of cutting, deep emotional distress, etc. She exposes herself to Emo music, web related information, reading material, and so on. She [...]