I am wondering why I am so irritable all the time. I am a stay at home mom of three, all under the age of six. I feel like all I do is yell at my kids, and I don’t mean to. I have a wonderful life and great husband, but I feel like such [...]

Ever since I was 13 I have been in the mental health system. It’s hard to explain, but I met this girl at school when I was 14 and she had Borderline Personality Disorder. She was not yet diagnosed but was at 18, so I didn’t know that at the time. We went through a [...]

Q: I’m 19 years old, studying abroad and away from my family. Being away from them is not a problem and I’m quite independent. This whole problem has started with my mind always thinking and never shutting up. Recently it has been just too much. Whenever I sit to do my assignments my mind just [...]

Q: Why does depression sometimes feel good? Some levels of depression feel comforting. Why is that? A: Depression covers a wide range of feeling. I’m thinking that you’re talking about feeling melancholic — not really depressed but kind of resigned to how things are and sorry/sad that this is the state of things. To the [...]

Q: I am an 18-year-old young man, and I’ve been trying to find out what’s wrong with me. I am very self-conscious all the time. This is not always in a painful way, but I am almost always conscious of where I look and where others are looking. I often don’t know where to look [...]

Q: I am 25 years old, and I have come to believe I have Asperger’s Syndrome, although I haven’t been officially diagnosed. I also saw a few doctors and psychologists as a child, but they couldn’t see the signs of the disorder in me. My parents also refuse to acknowledge that I have it. They [...]

Q: I’m a 22-year-old man and for most of my life I’ve been unhappy. I developed epilepsy as a kid and it has really destroyed my personality. Every day is an inner struggle. I fight with myself just to get work done, get up in the morning, or take on ANY kind of responsibility. I [...]