Q: I am a 16-year-old girl and it has recently been pointed out to me a lot how…weird I am. People say I’m too paranoid and I’m too much of a perfectionist. I’m also noticing other things that I’m beginning to feel freaked out about. First, I have ‘quirks’ that are quite strange. The things [...]

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 tend to overthink things a lot. I get scared easily, and I’m worried all the time. I hate disappointment, so as much as possible I try to think of all the horrible things that might happen instead of being positive. And because of that, I always feel nervous and upset, and most of [...]

Q: My co-worker, a 47-year-old woman, seemed very nice at first. But as time went by things got bad. The first issue involved a phone call. I answered the office phone, as this lazy woman was on the other line. The caller was the woman’s son. I said “your mom’s on the other line; I’m [...]

Q: I had left for college but decided to withdraw and take the year off because a week after I arrived a huge psychological problem began. Along with my reluctance to eat, I started to close myself off from the rest of the dorm and from my roommate. She was concerned and told my resident [...]

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 need help with my mother. She is 54 years old and lives alone. My father passed away a few years ago, and since then she has basically lived the same isolated life. But for a few years now she has been increasingly paranoid about where she lives. She constantly moves from apartment to [...]