Q: Someone I was in love with for over a year visited me yesterday. I had long given up hope, but last night we kissed. I don’t recall ever feeling so happy, not necessarily because I still had feelings for him, but because something I had wanted for such a long time had finally happened. [...]

Q: Alright, so it has been probably two years since I started experiencing this. First, I became just a mediocre student. I didn’t feel like excelling, and it has been the same way until now. It’s not like I fail my subjects, but I could do better. I miss school at least once a week [...]

Q: I have been depressed for a while because I used to be very rich but have lost most of my money, and now I don’t seem to be motivated to do anything. I have been like this for two years. I do not do much other than work, in order to recover from the [...]

Q: My parents would fight every night when I was younger. I would fall asleep to their screaming and, when I woke up, I would throw up. That is how my body deals with stress. At the age of six, I was sent to multiple psychologists who never really got through to me. My dad [...]

Q: Recently I realized that I cry too often in inappropriate situations. Anything can trigger it, really — somebody scolds me, comments on my work, just frowns at me, or responds a bit harshly. The thing is, I know they mean no harm, I really do. I appreciate their pointing out my mistakes, and I [...]

Q: I am really hopeless. I am not motivated in my life and most of the time, whenever I have problems I want to die. I want to quit life. My girlfriend doesn’t trust me. That’s my problem. I don’t know what to do. I am frustrated, I want to die so that she will [...]

Q: My wife of 46 years has suffered from clinical depression for most of that time. Both she and I attribute it to parental neglect and not being nurtured at an early age. Even after her early childhood years, her parents continued to ignore her feelings and treated her as a non-person. She often plays [...]