Q: I am a 21-year-old male, and I have been going through a strange phase in my life in the recent year. I have always considered myself straight, mainly because whenever I have sexual fantasies it involves women, and whenever an attractive woman passes my sight I can’t help but follow with my gaze. I [...]

Q: I’m wondering whether I have a disorder. Firstly, I am 22 which just makes this seem even sillier. I’ve been considering cutting myself. I used to do this when I was a teenager, but I stopped. I’ve been thinking of buying a Swiss army knife because it’s portable and I can use it whenever [...]

Q: I have been feeling a lot of stress and depression lately. Inflicting myself with pain is the only thing that will calm me down. I will do or take in anything to make myself unhealthy, even though I know that it is not healthy and that I shouldn’t be doing that. I haven’t been [...]

Q: How do you talk to a therapist or psychologist or psychiatrist when the bulk of your problems stem from the fact that you can’t (big letters CAN’T) open your mouth in the first place to talk about anything of any depth whatsoever? What about when you get so frustrated by your inability to speak [...]

Q: Please help. My son is almost 7 years old and has always been a very healthy, happy little boy. In fact he was the child that every book was ever written about. Until about a week ago… He came running into the house telling me about the story of Bloody Mary” and how they [...]

Q: My boyfriend and I have been dating for four and a half years. We were engaged two years ago, but that fell through — we both needed to take a step back. (We were fighting a lot and breaking up a lot.) Well, since that time I feel like I’ve been begging my boyfriend [...]

Q: Frequently my wife will just suddenly get angry. Something that isn’t planned or is otherwise bad usually instigates it, but the explosive bursts of anger are so out of proportion to what’s actually happening. When I tell her not to make such a big deal out of it, things will be okay, there’s no [...]