Q: How do you talk to a therapist or psychologist or psychiatrist when the bulk of your problems stem from the fact that you can’t (big letters CAN’T) open your mouth in the first place to talk about anything of any depth whatsoever? What about when you get so frustrated by your inability to speak [...]

Q: I am an 18-year-old young man, and I’ve been trying to find out what’s wrong with me. I am very self-conscious all the time. This is not always in a painful way, but I am almost always conscious of where I look and where others are looking. I often don’t know where to look [...]

Q: I’m a 19-year-old girl. My father has been abusing me emotionally since I was a little girl. My mother was mean to me too when I was young, but now we are good friends. My father always tells me off, beats me, shouts at me and always always always blames me for any bad [...]

Q: I have a very big problem. I can’t sit in a group and have a normal conversation. If I start saying something, even something very normal, my facial expressions change, and my face turns red! And if someone says something about me, even something quite normal, then the same thing happens. I can’t even [...]

Q: I am a 15-year-old boy who came to the U.S. about 3 years ago. When I first came here, I was one of the students who participated the most. I would talk, share, and not care too much what anyone thought about me. However, when I started 9th grade, I was thrown into classes [...]

Q: I have a real dilemma. I have a big problem talking to people in my workplace or neighborhood. I feel very very shy and feel like what I might have to say would not interest them. I have left three jobs because I have felt stressed at work and didn’t talk to people at [...]

Q: I’m a 35-year-old man with a wife and two-year-old son, and my family and I have been living in a foreign country. I have been working for the same company for the past 11 years. My problem is that I have problems when speaking that I think will keep me from advancing to a [...]