The following questions are related to ‘Bipolar’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I’m from Europe and I experienced some real problems after returning from my vacation in New York City. I had been smoking “weed”, but I think it might have been laced with PCP (phencyclidine) or something because I ended up in a mental hospital being treated for what the doctors thought was an unspecified [...]
Q: I’m a 19-year-old male and I’ve been going through the hardest times of my life. The problem is that my mind is active 24/7, and I find myself thinking of questions like “What is time?,” “What is the present?,” “What is ego?,” and “Who am I?”. I wonder things like how I can control [...]
Q: Recently, my husband and I visited my my husband’s parents and told them that because of unexplained infertility, we were going to adopt a child. My mother-in-law flew off the handle. She lost a baby 45 years ago, and when we tried to reason with her, she wouldn’t listen and challenged us to walk [...]
Q: I have always wondered what it is that makes me different from everyone around me. I have been diagnosed with several conditions, including Bipolar Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Attention Deficit Disorder. I have researched Autism and Asperger’s online, and although I don’t believe I am autistic, I have noticed that I have some [...]
Q: I experience mood swings that I believe are much larger than a normal person would experience. I have just taken this website’s “mania” questionnaire, which advised me to seek immediate help. However, having seen a documentary on bipolar disorder, I am almost certain that I do not have it, or at least if I [...]
Q: I know that no one can diagnose me over the internet. But I’m beginning to wonder if I might have Borderline Personality Disorder. I am a 19-year-old male college student. For at least the past five years, I have been a very emotionally volatile person. Close friends have thought I might be bipolar, but [...]
Q: My daughter has changed. It’s all about her. Anything I say is always contradicted. She is into so many projects that she has no time for family. She has a son, a husband, and a horse. The horse is the most important thing in her life. This behavior is notable since the medication 75.m. [...]
