Q: I am a 20-year-old college student. When I was a child I dealt with depression after my father left. I was sent to a child psychiatrist to deal with my father’s leaving and with self-esteem issues. Things seemed fine after my final session, but for years I still felt depressed. I want to get [...]

Q: I’ve been in a relationship with a girl for about five months now, and it seems like every once in a while I get this extreme anxiety when I wonder certain things… To give you some background, when we met I had just come out of a relationship with someone who, during the whole [...]

Q: I was wondering if being an only child raised in a single-parent household could increase the likelihood of developing avoidant personality disorder. My father died just before I was two, and my mom never remarried. She wasn’t abusive in any way intentionally, but she wasn’t able to be around for me very much either. [...]

Q: People seem to like me but they don’t like my twin brother. I’ve tried giving him tips, but he just won’t listen. Also I am pretty well behaved for my age, but my brother is just basically “a goody two shoes”. This means that he never wants to go out to parties or to [...]

Q: I need help with understanding my problem: is it a symptom of something, does it happen to others, maybe it has a name? I want to understand where it’s coming from and how to deal with it. I’m keeping myself from going to the toilet. When I feel the need to, in the morning, [...]

Q: I know someone who gets extremely distressed over small flaws. She can see things that people usually do not take notice of. For example, if there is a very small and insignificant scratch on, say, her phone, she would buy a new one. After a few days with that new phone, she finds a [...]

Q: My husband has a female friend. At first, I did not have a problem with their friendship. Now I feel like maybe I misjudged it. Sometimes she calls him 10 times a day, and texts him as many as 20 times a day! I never worried about them cheating and do not have a [...]