The following questions are related to ‘OCD’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: Last May 2007, I suffered a miscarriage at 5 weeks. I suffered severe anxiety attacks, waking up in a panic often with heart palpitations, which lasted about 2-3 months. Since that time, I fell into a pattern that something was wrong with me, constantly seeking health problems, specifically OB/GYN related. This has escalated into [...]
Q: Dr. Carver, Thank you so much for your articles and answers, they’ve been extremely helpful to me and my family. I am a 29-year-old male with a history of depression. I was sexually abused by a babysitter when I was 3-4 years old. I was treated with Paxil for depression 5 years ago and [...]
Q: I am a 27-year-old female with OCD. My biggest problem is fear of anything to do with death: cemeteries, funeral homes, etc. It has gotten to the point where I get stressed out leaving the house and I won’t go to people’s homes for fear of them having an urn. I moved last year [...]
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 [...]
Q: I am a 17-year-old boy with OCD. I am in my junior year of high school and lately I have been experiencing almost constant intrusive thoughts about ripping my eyes out. Please help me. I feel slightly compelled to carry this action out even though it terrifies me and I don’t want to. What [...]
Q: I will spend hours daily going over my legs with tweezers searching for any hairs I can pluck (including ingrowns). I examine the hairs I pull and feel disappointment when there is no “root” or bulb at the end. It may sound sick, but I stick the hairs to a piece of paper organised [...]
Q: This is weird for me, but probably not for you. This has never happened to me before in my life, but for the last few months I get a few lines from a song stuck in my head and I can’t get it out. It’s CONSTANT and driving me nuts! If I’m not actually [...]
