Q: I’m 23 years old and in the past two years I have developed an anxiety disorder. It wasn’t so bad at first — it would only bother me at certain times. Now it is so severe it’s with me 24/7, to the point where I can no longer function as I used to! I [...]

Q: I would like a completely honest answer on this one. Please don’t sugar-coat things. Five years ago I was the most confident teenager in the world — I was probably more confident than 99% of all the people I have ever met — yet I wasn’t arrogant and didn’t look down on anyone. I [...]

Q: I recently had an odd problem. I could communicate verbally well enough, but when I tried to type or write, the words came out jumbled and incoherent. This increased or decreased with the pressure or stress level of what I was writing. Cognitively I thought I was writing fully-formed words and sentences, but in [...]

Q: Almost every second of every day, I feel as if I’m in a dream. I’m aware of everything that is going on around me and I react to it, but it just doesn’t seem real. I get scared, thinking that nothing is real. I’m always paranoid to the point where I can barely function. [...]

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 have been suffering from a very disturbing illness for over a decade. I’m 30 years old. The problem I have is that is I feel am going to faint in public places, especially somewhere where people know me. I feel like it’s going to be such embarrassment and fear that they are going [...]

Q: I am sorry if this letter seems scattered, but I am confused and in a real bind and don’t know what to do. I was with a narcissistic girlfriend for 15 months in a five-bedroom rooming house. Her behavior eventually chased all of the other tenants away. She has her own room, and I [...]