Q: Hi, I’m a 48-year-old woman and I never seem to be happy. On a good day I’m just not happy, but on a bad day I lash out at my family. I seem to hate everything, and everyone. Also, I disagree with my husband and daughter about the littlest things that don’t even matter. [...]

Q: Hi there…I have a quick question…I have recently had a relaspe in my depression/anxiety that I had about 12 yrs ago. I won’t go into details about it too much. My concern is part of my symptoms: if I “think” too much, too in-depth, I can make myself get anxiety, and I feel as [...]

Q: I wrote before about my husband; he has depression, and he is not talking to my sister. But now it’s completely blown out of proportion. He says that she lied to him. It’s over her seeing a man and wanting to spend time with her friends her age. But he thinks that she was [...]

Q: There are a few things I’ve been noticing about myself that people find strange or bothersome. In particular, I get mad extremely easily. For example, if I ask this guy, or any friend of mine, to hang out with me and he/she says “I’ll think about it,” I take it personally and think “why [...]

Q: My boyfriend lost his mum about 7 years ago and now he has funny turns and a very short temper. The other night he had a turn, and he was telling me to let him go and kill himself so he could be with his mum because that’s where he wants to be, and [...]

Q: When I was 6, I watched my 13-year-old sister being raped by my mother’s boyfriend. When we told my mother, she did not believe us and proceeded to whip us and called us liars. My sister was killed years later at the age of 24. My older brother who was very good at basketball [...]

Q: Someone said something to me today that made me “stop in my tracks” if you will. What they said has been bothering me all day, but now it’s totally driving me crazy. How do I get it out of my head? A: There’s not enough information here for a complex response. We often need [...]