Q: My 14-year-old niece has a crush on her stepfather. She is having dreams and then is believing that they really happened. She fantasizes about him and then believes that the fantasies are real. Is this a disorder? What can I do to research why someone would believe dreams/thoughts to be reality? A: Fantasies are [...]

Q: I grew up in a very abusive, dysfunctional family. My mother is schizophrenic. My father never really lived with us for longer than a few months at a time. At 13, I met a young man 5 years my senior. We were together until I was 21. At that time, he was a good [...]

Q: I’m a 22-year-old male and I have had a number of dreams about seeing my sister naked. We never have sex in the dreams but I do hold her and caress her body. What could this mean? A: What could this mean? Not much, actually. We tend to dream about seven dreams per night [...]

Q: I have some problems with swearing and it is affecting my relationship with my fiancée. I love her too much and we will be married this year. I can’t live without her so most of the time I stay at her place and I sleep in her room but I never touch her physically. [...]

Q: I have just recently had a very bad turn of waking up in the middle of the night wanting to kill my daughter’s boyfriend. I was taken to hospital, given all the tests and they found nothing wrong with my head. They now suggest I go to a psychologist. I have been prescribed medication, [...]

Q: Hi! Ever since I was little, I’ve always had trouble sleeping. I tend to think a lot at night, but not always about bad things. Sometimes I think about something wonderful that just happened in my life, or sometimes I think about all the things I have to do the next day, but lots [...]

Q: Recently I have been, for lack of a better word, scared to sleep. This is due to recurring nightmares that have me waking up in the night panicking and quite often crying, so I don’t sleep very much. These dreams are about losing my boyfriend, and even though he assures me it won’t happen, [...]