The following questions are related to ‘Drug Abuse’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I was widowed after 43 years in mid-2007. Since this time I have found that I am bored, likely depressed, and feeling rather useless. My norm before this time was accomplishing things, and being busy. I find that my motivation level is almost nil and that my desire to keep things up is really [...]
Q: I’ve been married for 4 years. I’m in my 50′s, and my husband is almost 50. My husband has a masters degree in biology and is very smart, but he prefers to work as a “chef”. He usually brings home about $20,000 per year, but this year he has made about $12,000. This is [...]
Q: My brother has been using drugs and been an alcoholic since he was a teenager. He started selling drugs and did this for a couple of years after high school to support his habit. Our mom told him to stop and promised him a good paying job. So he quit selling about 6 years [...]
Q: I am obsessed with fixing an old friend. I have known him for many years, since before high school even started. We dated briefly but maintained a friendship that grew very strong over time. I have since moved away, back into the area, and I have married. In this time he has had a [...]
Q: I work in a residential program for pregnant and parenting teens and single young women. Just recently we had a resident who was staying with us; she was a sixteen-year-old who was about 7 months into her pregnancy. This young woman had a history of jumping around through foster care and group homes and [...]
Q: I desperately need advice on what the next step is to take for my youngest brother. This all began with his lying about graduating from college, were he was 2 classes shy. He lived with my parents for a year with no job and isolated himself in his room. He ended up stealing money [...]
Q: A friend of mine shows the symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia. He believes people are drugging him, hacking into his computer, etc. He has a history of drug use (I think mainly cocaine). He has lost 2 jobs because of this already and has threatened to commit suicide. However, he doesn’t believe he needs help [...]
