The following questions are related to ‘Relationships’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: I wrote a few weeks back about a breakup with my spouse who I now know has Borderline Personality Disorder (abusive, anti-social, psychotic) and Bipolar Disorder. He has no idea where I am as I am afraid for him to find me, but I had been speaking to him at least once a week [...]
Q: I’m a 25-year-old female struggling to recover from an emotionally and sometimes physically abusive childhood. I’m also battling Social Phobia / Avoidant Personality Disorder. Often, I kept my mouth shut and withdrew into myself to avoid conflicts and felt anxious when I could feel them brewing. Even now, watching others argue or fight distresses [...]
Q: My absuive ex-husband is getting married. I don’t understand why I’m upset and panicked. I’m engaged to be married myself and my past from hell is overshawdowing a promising future. He was my first real boyfriend. We met during our first year of college when we were both 18. The abuse started shortly thereafter [...]
Q: My significant other has fundamental distrust of me. We are a mature couple, both divorced over 10 years and approaching our one year anniversary of dating exclusively. She’s a bright, bubbly, spontaneous joy to be with. We see each other several times a week and we have a blast together in every way except [...]
Q: I have a question for you that I hope you can answer. On many occasions I hear the phrase “It’s too bad …” I can’t quite figure it out. A person has a fender bender and someone will say something like “it’s too bad you had to drive downtown today”. A kid scores three [...]
Q: My good friend has to have every man’s attention. Even when we’re together she will make passes at other men. When we go into public when she is alone she feels a great desire to have sex with them in strange places like in a parking lot in the middle of the day, or [...]
Q: My lifelong friend (33 years) is married to man who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia during the first Gulf War, apparently after having been “given a pill” by the Army. He was discharged and, according to her, became a meth addict who is now a convicted sex offender. She was aware of this prior [...]
