Q: I am a 16-year-old girl and it has recently been pointed out to me a lot how…weird I am. People say I’m too paranoid and I’m too much of a perfectionist. I’m also noticing other things that I’m beginning to feel freaked out about. First, I have ‘quirks’ that are quite strange. The things [...]

Q: I am 16 years old and I guess I have some problems. They were recently brought to my attention by a friend and by my mother. They have existed in my life for about two years, some longer than that, since the time I found my kitten dead in our dryer — that actually [...]

Q: A good friend of mine, now 23 years old, was raised with an emphasis on religion. He has firm beliefs on sex, alcohol, homosexuality, etc. He recently discovered that he wanted to become a spy, and God wants that for him as well. In order to do this, he has realized he must have [...]

Q: I have a mental illness (schizoaffective disorder), and I’m a single 26-year-old male. I’m thinking about getting married to someone on the same level because other girls won’t accept me for who I am. But if I do, what if she wants to have kids with me? What should I do? What if the [...]

Q: My boyfriend is 32 years old and I have known him for one year. I suspect that he may have a mental illness, however he completely refuses to check with a medical professional or even consider that he may have a problem. We have been thinking of a future together, but I’m worried since I [...]

Q: I had left for college but decided to withdraw and take the year off because a week after I arrived a huge psychological problem began. Along with my reluctance to eat, I started to close myself off from the rest of the dorm and from my roommate. She was concerned and told my resident [...]

Q: My mother has been formally diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. One of her traits is that she rewrites history to fit her own view of things, even to the point of denying something she’s said only a few moments earlier. For example, she denies ever raging at my sister and me and hitting us [...]