Q: I’m 24 years old. I have exceptionally bad anxiety. I don’t know what to do anymore and I’m miserable. I don’t want to say “can’t” because I feel like its admitting defeat but, I can’t be alone. I haven’t been alone in my home in about five years. I have terrible panic attacks when [...]

Q: I am 16 years old and I guess I have some problems. They were recently brought to my attention by a friend and by my mother. They have existed in my life for about two years, some longer than that, since the time I found my kitten dead in our dryer — that actually [...]

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 [...]