The following questions are related to ‘Paranoia’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I need some information about psychiatric illnesses. I am 29 and have gone through substance abuse treatment and have been clean and sober for over 2 years now. I have a brother who is 33 who I thought was also alcoholic, but now I’m coming to believe he is schizophrenic. My brother claims people [...]
Q: I am married to a man who 5 years ago at the age of 35 decided to try methamphetamine (“Meth”) for the first time. Over his 4-month addiction, he used nearly $10K in meth alone. It was horrifying. During that time, I became the center of his focus. According to him I was having [...]
Q: During the last 5 months, my wife has been having a problem she doesn’t want to discuss with a doctor. She always feels that everybody in her life is against her. She feels that my baby girl (age 4) and I are involved in a conspiracy against her. Even the TV programs and radio [...]
Q: I have a brother who recently revealed that once he started to hang around on his own he met two people, which became his ‘best’ friends. For a year or more he was in the belief that they existed, and he would talk to them and listen to their advice. He says they actually [...]
Q: My mind is playing tricks on me. I hear things, mostly whispering, but there is no one else around. I have an overwhelming feeling that someone is watching me, or that people on the street or in a store somehow know my thoughts and are talking about me. This makes it increasingly difficult to [...]
Q: My beautiful, smart, confident, and happy 19-year-old 2nd year college student is going thought a harrowing experience, and I hope you can shed some light and hope for her. Literally, as though a switch had been hit, she was at a party with her friends (New Year’s Eve) and prior to any drinking, started [...]
Q: Recently I was in some pretty strange circumstances. Two people at work were taunting me with statements related to pedophilia, not just once, but one week and then the next. I know that there was someone with my name in Australia and who is dead now, who had a lawsuit with regard to the [...]
