The following questions are related to ‘CBT’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I am a 20-year-old female. I have been in this state for a long time. I feel weird around people. I always think people close to me are looking at me. I feel nervous and sometimes have problems in swallowing saliva. I am scared and sometimes can’t look directly into someone’s eyes, especially when [...]
Q: I’m a 20-year-old girl who’s suffering from paralysing social self-doubt and anxiety. I don’t know if I really have a medical condition, but your advice would help me a lot. I am a Chinese immigrant in Australia; I’ve been here for at least nine years now. From the outside I look like someone totally [...]
Q: My friend has a problem. She says she has a chemical imbalance in her brain, and from everything I’ve talked about with her, I don’t doubt it. She has extreme OCD and a pretty negative self-image, all of which gather together into a huge…something like a ball of stress and pain that is ruining [...]
Q: I frequently feel the need to force myself to feel emotional pain by imagining a distressing situation (e.g., imagining a painful breakup, imagining my last words when I die, etc.). I am not normally ‘satisfied’ until I cry uncontrollably to the point where I feel physical chest pains and fall asleep. I usually feel [...]
Q: I have thoughts and sometimes images of killing people I know, and thoughts that I’ve hurt a child, although I have no intention of doing anything like that. So I will check them over and over again. I always find myself checking things over and over for fear something bad will happen, and I [...]
