The following questions are related to ‘Guilt’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I believe my Mother has a personality disorder, and over the last year I haven’t been in contact with her or seen her. This has been great, as every time I see her or speak to her I revert to a childlike state. She is controlling and manipulative. She played my sister and I [...]
Q: My mother-in-law is self centered, manipulative, extremely lazy and feels it’s everyone’s responsibility to take care of her…except her own. When I met my husband he still lived with his mother and it seemed as if their roles were reversed, or that he had become a surrogate spouse to his mother. His mother and [...]
Q: I have been married for 3 years, and I love my husband very much. But recently I have been having very vivid dreams about my first “love”. These dreams involve him coming back into my life and me sneaking around my husband’s back to see him and even considering divorce to be with him. [...]
Q: I was reading about guilt with an affair. I’ve been having an affair for 4 weeks now. I’ve known this man for 2 years, and he’s tried to pursue me but I never gave in until now. It was only going to happen once. We have started talking everyday and meet twice a week [...]
Q: I am 17 years old and I have a problem with myself. Thoughts related to sex come to my mind very frequently. Whenever I am alone I lock my room and strip off my clothes and do some weird acts. Then after that I realise what I am doing, quickly put my clothes back [...]
Q: My 32-year-old fiancé and I are about to have our first baby. His mother lives 3000 miles away from us and though she is a nice lady — she is also very needy. Her husband (his father) died 12 years ago, and when he was alive neither of them had friends outside of each [...]
Q: I am a 41-year-old woman who was in a 9-month relationship with a man who clearly showed some Loser/Controlling tendencies. When I realized he could never be happy unless I changed to meet his “needs”, I broke off the relationship. This break-up/reconciliation happened three times in the nine months. During the last reconciliation, I [...]
