Q: My father left our family when I was born and chose a life of drugs and alcohol. He remarried twice and settled down with a woman whom he abused until her death from an overdose. As a child, I saw him one to two times a year, once on a holiday and then usually [...]

Q: My husband and I were in our car after an evening out for dinner. Somehow his cell phone accidentally dialed his mother (he dropped his cell phone on the way out of the restaurant — I think that may have been when it happened). In the course of our conversation in the car we [...]

Q: I have a very dear friend I have known for about four years now. In the past 18 months, he has lost his dad and his identical twin brother. Prior to losing his dad, he spent 15 months caring for him as he was very ill. During the time I have known him, he [...]

Q: I need help with my mother. She is 54 years old and lives alone. My father passed away a few years ago, and since then she has basically lived the same isolated life. But for a few years now she has been increasingly paranoid about where she lives. She constantly moves from apartment to [...]

Q: I’ve been having almost daily crying spells lately and feel on the verge of hyperventilating when I wake up in the morning. In the last two years my father died after suffering for three months in the hospital, and my mother was diagnosed with cancer; I was her primary caregiver until she died a [...]

Q: My mother is a Personality Disorder individual. I am 37; she is 63 and is in kidney failure in hospice care. I have received tremendous amounts of verbal and some physical abuse from her my entire life. I distanced myself from her for the last 15 years, only seeing her occasionally when I “tried” [...]

Q: I am a 21-year-old from India. I finished my diploma in computers and pursued my dream career in animation. Everything was going normal until my father’s sudden death from a heart attack three months ago. My mother died of cancer in 2006, and I have an older sister who is working. This is my [...]