Q: I’m a 40-year-old male with TBI (traumatic brain injury) and have been diagnosed with treatment resistant depression and severe anxiety disorder. I am also an alcoholic, although I am proud to say I have only had two slips in 1 1/2 years. A few months ago, I lost my job, and three weeks ago I was [...]

Q: I tend to overthink things a lot. I get scared easily, and I’m worried all the time. I hate disappointment, so as much as possible I try to think of all the horrible things that might happen instead of being positive. And because of that, I always feel nervous and upset, and most of [...]

Q: I’m 19 and very angry. I have two young children and have been with my boyfriend for 5 years. I get angry often, mostly at my boyfriend. I think I bottle up anger from many sources, and then just blow up on him. Well, it has gone way too far. I recently had a [...]

Q: I’m a 23-year-old male graduate student at university who has never dated. I’m generally confident with people, but I’m a bit shy around strangers in social settings. Lately, I’ve noticed that this shyness is worse around people to whom I’m physically attracted. I feel very physically unattractive, knowing that only two women have ever [...]

Q: I have a compulsive need to do what I call starting over. It started when I was 10. I would blink my eyes to start over — and be perfect, that is. I would tell myself that I need to walk, talk, think and act perfectly. I have spent years blinking constantly. Now that [...]

Q: My friend (yes, my friend) has problems socially. She has friends. She is smart. But she has no confidence. She can barely talk to me face to face. She only talks by text. She won’t take phone calls for the same reason that she won’t talk face to face. She detaches herself from people. [...]

Q: I recently had an odd problem. I could communicate verbally well enough, but when I tried to type or write, the words came out jumbled and incoherent. This increased or decreased with the pressure or stress level of what I was writing. Cognitively I thought I was writing fully-formed words and sentences, but in [...]