Q: Throughout my childhood I was home-schooled by an oppressive and domineering mother whom I bitterly resented, and I came to associate those feelings of resentment with my education. As a teenager, I dropped out of high school. I now need to study in order to get my GED (General Educational Development tests), but whenever [...]

Q: Well, I have a lot of troubles. I feel overwhelmed; somehow I think that solving a part will start solving everything else. I know they are not a big deal but I feel so frustrated. I just finalized my career, I have a so-so job, and I am waiting for a bigger one. I [...]

Q: I would like to know if I’m claustrophobic or not, and whether it’s serious or not. I’ve been ignoring it my whole life, but I’ve started to feel that maybe it’s not right. Well, I think it started when I was a child. I heard my mother talking about a man who was buried [...]

Q: I am a 20-year-old female. I have been in this state for a long time. I feel weird around people. I always think people close to me are looking at me. I feel nervous and sometimes have problems in swallowing saliva. I am scared and sometimes can’t look directly into someone’s eyes, especially when [...]

Q: I’m a 20-year-old girl who’s suffering from paralysing social self-doubt and anxiety. I don’t know if I really have a medical condition, but your advice would help me a lot. I am a Chinese immigrant in Australia; I’ve been here for at least nine years now. From the outside I look like someone totally [...]

Q: Every time it’s going to storm I panic. I worry a tornado might come, or something serious might happen. I get so scared, and part of the problem is not having a basement or a safe room to go to, or anyone I know who has one that I can go to. I have [...]

Q: I am a 17-year-old female doing my A-level classes and exams. I think I have some kind of a serious exam phobia, and I get really scared when it comes to exams. I have never been an outstanding student, but as years have passed I have been deteriorating in my studies, and now I [...]