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‘Miscellaneous’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 3
The following questions are related to ‘Miscellaneous’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
My Husband’s Left Eye is Tearing
Q: My husband has had left eye tearing and no symptoms except tear build up in the left eye. What is the cause and what should we do? A: As a psychologist, my expertise is behind the eyes. However, your husband may have a type of infection, an allergy reaction, a problem with his left [...]
Why Would a Teenager Store Bottles of Urine?
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 [...]
We Interrupt this Regularly Scheduled Service…
Since launching this service in May 2007, we have now published 999 replies to questions sent in by readers! That means the next question to be published will be our 1000th question. Hats off to Dr Carver for his seemingly tireless commitment to offering feedback to our readers, and hats off to all our readers [...]
Shocked and Surprised by the Comments and Actions of Others
Q: I was wondering is there a common phenomenon or psychological term for being baffled by outlandish statements or irrational actions? I am often so perplexed when someone makes a blatantly ridiculous statement or behaves irrationally, that I don’t speak. This is not the case if someone gives a reasonable argument and I disagree — [...]
Subliminal Messages During Surgery
Q: I was wondering if anybody had done any studies about subliminal messages during surgery? I have to undergo a shoulder replacement surgery and I want to make a recording or hire someone to talk to me while I am under anesthesia until I wake up and have them tell me things like instead of [...]
Why Call a Person ‘Mentally Ill’ if They Are Happy?
Q: I’ve always been curious about the classification of mental “illnesses.” I can understand why a condition would be termed an illness if it makes someone unstable enough to commit murder or cause other types of pain, but what about those situations of “abnormality” where the individual is happy? I was reading about “abnormal” personalities [...]
