Q: My mother fits this description perfectly: “All personality disorders have core personalities of selfishness, insensitivity to others, narcissism, a refusal to accept personal responsibility for their behavior, and a sense of entitlement that allows them to abuse others when their selfish demands are not immediately met.” She can be a very sweet person, especially [...]

Q: I have a friend who calls her parents by their first names. She said it started when she was 5 years old and was afraid that if she was lost she would not remember her parents’ first names and started calling them by their first name at that early age and is still doing [...]

Q: Within the last year, I’ve been feeling very weird. It’s as if sometimes when I am just focusing on something, my mind drifts off to “nothingness”. One second I’m trying to concentrate on something, the next second I find myself looking at nothing with a blank mind. I’m afraid that I can’t seem to [...]

Q: I am 29 years old, married for 3 years to a Chinese lady who is 25. We have a son who is nearly 2 years old. I am a British man, and we have lived in China for 4 years now. We both work hard in our jobs, me in the media, and her [...]

Q: I have dated a guy for four years. He is sixteen years younger than me, yet in many ways acts one hundred years older than me. Not until I had dated him for awhile did I realize he still lived at home with his mom and dad. He said he had never had a [...]

Q: I am at a loss and not sure where to find answers online so I figured I could start here: I am in a marriage that is beyond repair and we are considering divorce. Therapy, etc. has been tried and failed; we are past that at this point. We agreed as a couple to [...]

Q: To the outside world, my son is friendly, outgoing, polite, kind, and considerate. He can be this way at home, too, unless something doesn’t go his way or he feels he is being treated unfairly. If this happens, he has angry and frightening verbal outbursts that seem out of his control. When he recovers, [...]