Q: I am wondering what I can expect from joint counseling sessions with my mother, who has a Cluster B Personality Disorder. Though I am comfortable with low to no contact (as are my children and my husband), I do sometimes long for a normal relationship with my mother and for her to have a [...]

Q: I’m a 40-year-old male with TBI (traumatic brain injury) and have been diagnosed with treatment resistant depression and severe anxiety disorder. I am also an alcoholic, although I am proud to say I have only had two slips in 1 1/2 years. A few months ago, I lost my job, and three weeks ago I was [...]

Q: I am now 18 and I have a very busy school schedule. I have tasks around the house I will do but at times, when I get sick with a cold or a fever my mom will start yelling at me saying that I won’t do my “chores” without starting fights and that I [...]

Q: I keep thinking there’s something wrong with me. There are many different cases where I act completely irrationally or just plain weird. For example, three months ago my mum told me that I may be going for my dream holiday — which I have dreamed about for three years! And what did I do? [...]

Q: I’m 19 and very angry. I have two young children and have been with my boyfriend for 5 years. I get angry often, mostly at my boyfriend. I think I bottle up anger from many sources, and then just blow up on him. Well, it has gone way too far. I recently had a [...]

Q: A recent point of contention between my wife and me is her refusal to take adequate responsibility for mistakes. To set a proper context — I’m not harping over trivial things, but talking about major blunders for which a simple “I’m sorry” doesn’t suffice. The example I’ll offer happened recently and involves our oldest [...]

Q: I’m a 17-year-old girl, living in Turkey. I have noticed something for the past six months — my father keeps walking with just his underwear on in front of me, and while having a morning erection. I told him millions of times not to but he doesn’t listen. We have a strong history of [...]