The following questions are related to ‘Emotional Memory’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: Can you help me please? Growing up as a child from the age of 10 onwards, I was told on a regular basis that I was useless, worthless, fat, and disgusting. I was also told that I was breathing air that I didn’t deserve. No matter what I tried to do — whether it [...]
Q: I am 20 years old, and my boyfriend and I have been together for 4 years. We have a very loving, caring relationship. We are high school sweethearts and above all, we are best friends. We have a lot of the same friends, but we go to different colleges, so we also have our [...]
Q: I am a 22-year-old female experiencing what are often referred to as “Daddy Issues”. My father, to whom I am very close — probably the closest among all the siblings, my being the eldest — is an influential man to whom I look up very much. He is intelligent and successful in his career, [...]
Q: I have read a lot of answers to questions on why people can’t remember their childhood but have not encountered an explanation to my question about myself. I not only cannot remember my childhood but also anything else — my teen years, my friends in school, and even some of my adult life. I [...]
Q: My husband was raised by an alcolohic/drug dependent father. His whole family, including his mother, is in denial to this day about the whole thing. My father-in-law died 31 years ago, and his name hasn’t been mentioned since at any family gathering, etc. (except in our home, where I have told my children everything [...]
Q: I am 49 now. About 12 years ago, I went through a traumatic experience: my little brother committed suicide, 6 months later my Mom died from breast cancer, and 2 months after that my Dad committed suicide. I also lost my first Aunt and Uncle during this time — five funerals in 10 months. [...]
Q: Over the past 3 years or so I have been having some incredibly disturbing dreams about my family — in all of which one or more die from an horrific death. I’ve dreamed that my brother died in a drive-by shooting and from drowning (both separate dreams) and that my Mum died of cancer. [...]
