The following questions are related to ‘Responsibility’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: My daughter is 34 with 3 children, ages 15, 13, and 10. I have never been able to get her to work. This is her second marriage and this husband works like a dog. I bought a home for them to live in, because, quite frankly, I worry about the children being drug around [...]
Q: I’ve been with my boyfriend for almost two years. We work together and live right down the street from each other. Through the week after work we watch TV together almost every night. Week-ends we go out to eat and to the movies and on Sunday we’ve just started going to church where his [...]
Q: I want to know how I should deal with a problem I am having. My Mother will not speak with me. In a moment of anger and frustration while on the phone with her I called my brother a “piece of s***” for not sending his children a Christmas present or even a card. [...]
Q: I am worried about my 13-year-old daughter. I’m wondering at what point childhood fantasy is considered normal and healthy and where it lapses into something harmful. She has found a web site that explains that people like her, very sensitive, caring about the environment etc. are really Unicorns in human disguise. She has taken [...]
Q: I would like some insight on a particular situation. My father, 83, has two neighbours, Bob and Sheila. Anne is in her 60s. All are non-smokers. My father often visits them for drinks and at Christmas and New Year meals. Sometimes Joyce, Sheila’s mother, joins these meals. Once or twice, Joyce has been known [...]
Q: I have been married for 9 years. My wife was right out of high school. We have 4 kids, a house and two dogs. During this time she went through 4 years of school, now she has been working there for 2 years. I was very verbally abusive, and she walked out 3 month [...]
Q: My friend was recently diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). It was actually because of some odd behavior when she and I were on a trip for our high school debate team that she finally was diagnosed. Well her mom has asked me to come stay over with her a few days whilst her [...]
