The following questions are related to ‘Panic’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
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Q: I suffer from Major Depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). My question is I often walk leaning to one side if I come under any kind of stress or within a foot of another individual. This happens even with people I really like and trust. In hallways [...]
Q: I am a first time mother of 5 month old twin boys. I felt a bit depressed after their birth but that has since gone away. I think that I am a good mother and I care for my children very well. However, I do have a few concerns and would like to know [...]
Q: What are these moods I’m experiencing? I can be fine for weeks or even months at a time acting as my normal self, just very much an introvert (that’s normal for me) but then all of a sudden something will happen or set me off. I’ll get really angry over something, so bad that [...]
Q: I have been experiencing very strange feelings and the episodes are getting more frequent. It is like suddenly I am not here or I am suddendly in a dream and I am watching myself and my thoughts are seeing some other time or place. I get an awful feeling in my stomach and in [...]
Q: According to my research (and I am honest about these things) I have had at least a medium level of depression for over a decade, along with a few very serious major depressive episodes and panic disorder. At this point, I am recently married, living on my own, and generally doing what I thought [...]
Q: I have had a few severe panic attacks followed by chronic depersonalization. It was hard to get through, but I made it on my own after a 4-month stuggle. The depersonalization is way down, and I have had no panic attacks in months. I can still feel the anxiety from time to time but [...]
Q: Five years ago, medical doctors made me very sick. Since then I’m often in a lot of physical pain. I have difficulties talking to medical doctors (dealing with them in general) because of my deep dislike of them. I’d like to have better communication with them to resolve my medical issues. A: You are [...]
