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Anna and Alexandra, My Friend’s Multiple Personalities

By Dr Cynthia Giocomarra, PsyD |

Q: I’m very worried about my friend and co-worker. She is 28 and has recently begun to behave very strangely. “Anna” thinks that mysterious people are trying to harm her and videotape her while she’s at home. She has said that she sometimes locks herself in the bathroom all night, because the bad people are [...]

Marijuana-Using Friend Now Getting Scary

By Dr George Simon, PhD |

Q: I am starting to worry about one of my good college friends because he seems to be hearing things that nobody else hears. He says he hears strangers insulting him or saying such things as “Look at that guy, he can’t compose himself,” or “Look at how wierd he is.” This all started about [...]

Taking On My Mother’s Pain

By Dr George Simon, PhD |

Q: Ever since I was a child, I have felt huge sympathy for my mother. I believe she was abused when she was younger. She is also a regular drinker and smokes cannabis every night. When I was younger I made the assumption that she drank because she was abused as a child. I have [...]

Fearing the Return of OCD

By Dr George Simon, PhD |

Q: First, let me thank you for reviewing and (hopefully) answering my question. Let me just get right down to it: from the ages of 13 to 15 I suffered from an intense, crippling battle with OCD. I actually can remember having obsessive thoughts and compulsive actions since I was very young. Most of the [...]

25 Years Later, Dad’s Relapsed

By Dr George Simon, PhD |

Q: Before I ask my question, I want to say thank you so much for all the help and articles you’ve posted. I found your site over a year ago when I was trying to help my girlfriend with some “father” issues. I never thought I would be submitting a question myself. Thank you again [...]

When I Say No, They Say I’m Stuck-Up

By Dr George Simon, PhD |

Q: I am the oldest girl out of four children, two boys and two girls. We are all very close in age (31, 30, 29, 27). My father is a manipulative, abusive, and controlling but “functioning” alcoholic. He has always held a job, but he is incredibly lazy at home and very old fashioned about [...]

A Bad Combination for Our Daughter: A Boy, Alcohol, and Prescription Drugs

By Dr George Simon, PhD |

Q: My daughter is a freshman at our local college and currently living in a student apartment. Up until last year she had never been in serious trouble of any kind, but she met a boy who was not in the same intellectual circle as she, and things went downhill from there. During her last [...]

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