The following questions are related to ‘Personality Disorders’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: My boyfriend suffers from low self esteem and sometimes depression. It really worries me that he constantly fears that I’m going to leave him. We’ve been together for six months now, and I love him to death. I keep telling him that, that I love him, and he keeps making me promise I won’t [...]
Q: I have been seeing my psychiatrist for 10 years. There were a couple of years in there that he stopped seeing me because of transference issues that got out of hand. But now that I am married with kids, we thought we could try this therapy again. I still have transference towards him, but [...]
Q: I would like to know how to stop a family curse. My mother had an abusive father who never showed an ounce of love to any of his children after the first one; there were 13 children. All of them had and have issues pertaining to this terrible upbringing. My Grandmother was a very [...]
Q: I have a girlfriend. She is 24, but as mature as a 40-year-old — intelligent, wise, imaginative, romantic, sensitive, emotional. She values true feelings and truth in front of any human quality. But she says she has supernatural powers. She says she can: cook eggs in her hands, move objects with her mind, change [...]
Q: I have a 21-year-old daughter who has almost every symptom of a personality disorder. She has been difficult to deal with her entire life to the point where I had to put her out of my home when she reached 18. She was verbally abusive not only to me and my husband but to [...]
Q: My daughter is 8 years old. By court order, neither she nor her brothers have been allowed any contact with their father for 5 months. I believe their father has some type of antisocial behavioral disorder, but I am not an expert. My daughter has been in counseling due to threatening to kill herself [...]
Q: I am deeply disturbed and upset and need your responses to my question. I was dating a man for a period of five years, and we have been apart for the past 2 1/2 years now. He was dating someone when we separated and said that “he as returned to continue our relationship”. It [...]
