Q: I was involved in an accident five years ago at my place of work. I’ve had seven spinal surgeries and I live in chronic pain due to the operations not working, scar tissue and damaged nerves. I had three really hard years where I spent a lot of time in bed isolated from everyone. [...]

Q: I am a 51-year-old woman and I have lost all my family! I feel lonely, but the worst feelings I have are those of having a serious disease. I have a lesion on my hand which I was afraid of but dermatologists say that it’s only a wart. I feel very bad just looking [...]

Q: I’ve never felt so sad and lonely. I want to be the happy, outgoing and optimistic person I used to be. It’s been two years since I felt like that. It all began when I started hanging out with this depressed girl and everyone I knew started coming to me for advice. It’s been [...]

Q: I’m a 21-year-old female and I cannot stop crying when I’m in a situation where I feel like others are angry with me, or when I think about people who have died, like my sister. I become angry when I cannot control myself but I don’t know what I can do. A: It is [...]

Q: I would like a completely honest answer on this one. Please don’t sugar-coat things. Five years ago I was the most confident teenager in the world — I was probably more confident than 99% of all the people I have ever met — yet I wasn’t arrogant and didn’t look down on anyone. I [...]

Q: My sister was diagnosed six weeks ago with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (a rapidly progressing degenerative brain disease). She is my only sibling and I am having such a difficult time dealing with all of this. My parents are in their mid-70s and it breaks my heart to see them go through this loss, as it [...]

Q: I have been going to a therapist, initially for depression and feelings of self-loathing that came on when my father passed away. My father was a narcissist, a genius, an alcoholic, and was charming and manipulative. He had been sexually abused in an orphanage growing up and was also later called out as a [...]