Q: I know someone who gets extremely distressed over small flaws. She can see things that people usually do not take notice of. For example, if there is a very small and insignificant scratch on, say, her phone, she would buy a new one. After a few days with that new phone, she finds a [...]

Q: I’ve never done anything like this before, so you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t know what to say… So, I am an 18-year-old girl, currently in high school. I had a relatively rough childhood, but I got through it in one piece and there isn’t anything overtly unusual about me except for [...]

Q: This isn’t a question but feedback to Dr. Bierman. I admire the replies Dr. Bierman has given, but I hope for the sake of people suffering, that he will consider adding an addendum to his recent answer regarding sleeping problems and frequent urination. For 15 years I had interstitial cystitis (IC). Urinary exams are [...]

Q: I’m an 18-year-old female, and I have been experiencing some of the symptoms that seem to be similar to “HOCD”. About a year ago, I discovered porn. I viewed straight porn first and experienced little arousal; then I stumbled upon lesbian porn and experienced enough arousal to climax. At this point, I didn’t really [...]

Q: I’m a 19-year-old college student who has OCD and anxiety disorder. After a night of binge drinking on a Thursday night (about five days ago), I woke up and felt more anxious than I’ve ever felt before. I constantly felt like I was on the verge of a panic attack for that entire day [...]

Q: I’m 19 years old, studying abroad and away from my family. Being away from them is not a problem and I’m quite independent. This whole problem has started with my mind always thinking and never shutting up. Recently it has been just too much. Whenever I sit to do my assignments my mind just [...]

Q: I’m fairly certain I’m experiencing something that’s not normal people for people to deal with. In my later teenage years I experienced a severe depression and received treatment and medication. The bad feelings slowly ebbed away, but since then I’ve been having feelings of extreme anxiety (constantly for the past three or four years), [...]