The following questions are related to ‘Pregnancy and Childbirth’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: Seven months ago my husband and I miscarried an unplanned pregnancy. It was a life-changing experience for me in that I really found out what it was I wanted to do with my life. I want to be a mom again. My husband doesn’t feel that way. I am 42, and I feel stuck. [...]
Q: I work in a residential program for pregnant and parenting teens and single young women. Just recently we had a resident who was staying with us; she was a sixteen-year-old who was about 7 months into her pregnancy. This young woman had a history of jumping around through foster care and group homes and [...]
Q: I have been married for 14 years last month. My husband and I have had a mutual friend for almost 3 years. She has more in common with him and mostly talks to him. He tells me weekly updates on her love life, being pregnant, etc. I was fine with this and would lend [...]
Q: I have a situation. I just had my first baby 66 days ago. It was a normal birth and the experience was quite scary for me, with 1) the contraction pain 2) the unhealed stitches after 2 weeks. My dilemma now is that I’m sort of losing desire for sex. I am scared of [...]
Q: Last May 2007, I suffered a miscarriage at 5 weeks. I suffered severe anxiety attacks, waking up in a panic often with heart palpitations, which lasted about 2-3 months. Since that time, I fell into a pattern that something was wrong with me, constantly seeking health problems, specifically OB/GYN related. This has escalated into [...]
Q: Would it be likely to get an inaccurate assessment on the MMPI-2, MCMI-III, and TSI if the person being administered the inventories was in a third trimester pregnancy and answering questions based on physical and emotional tendencies that are a direct result of the pregnancy and not necessarily occurring when not pregnant? (I.e. food [...]
Q: I am a 41-year-old woman who was in a 9-month relationship with a man who clearly showed some Loser/Controlling tendencies. When I realized he could never be happy unless I changed to meet his “needs”, I broke off the relationship. This break-up/reconciliation happened three times in the nine months. During the last reconciliation, I [...]
