The following questions are related to ‘Bullying’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: My sister just turned 40 and has a problem with her temper. If people in our family (our siblings, her children, her husband, our parents, etc.) stand up for ourselves she blows up. A normal blow-up usually consists of her yelling and storming out or hanging up the phone. She is immature and is [...]
Q: I am at my wits’ end. My daughter is 16 and pregnant. I am getting texts and voicemails from her father, who hasn’t been a part of her life for many years. When she used to visit him, she would get physically ill, throwing up, shaking, and wanting to come home. She stated that [...]
Q: I am writing from Toronto. I am very worried about my nephew who will be sponsored to Canada with his mother from China. He has been a trouble maker since he was born. Now he is 11 years old and his situation has become worse. His parents divorced when he was 3 years old. [...]
Q: I am neither a psychopath nor a sociopath. I show mixed traits: the cunning of a psychopath and the destructiveness far worse than a sociopath. I don’t manipulate people, I eat away at their conscious leaving them comatose into me like a virus. I’ve been to ten specialists and none know my symptoms. I [...]
Q: I have been in a relationship for 2 years with a man that I have started to realize is a “loser” and fits so many of the qualifications. I have also identified possible explanations for his behavior under Narcissistic Personality Disorder and Serial Bully, in my research to learn and improve my reactions to [...]
Q: What am I? Let me give you a brief past history. Victim of incest and sex abuse as a child Perpetrator of child abuse, convicted and jailed in my late teens. Victim of bullying at school — left me suicidal at one point. First husband dealt with abuse by asking me to recount my [...]
Q: I have a family history of mental abuse from my dad’s side of the family, and overall dysfunction (alcoholism, schizophrenia, manic depression) from both sides. My father was always a bully to me, my sister, and my mom. I am the youngest at 27. I have a very limited contact with my dad, but [...]
