Q: If I wanted to become a psychologist specializing in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder what degree would I need to obtain to do so? A: In general in the U.S. (the details of this process may vary in other countries), in order to become a psychologist you need to obtain a graduate doctoral degree in psychology [...]

Q: Throughout my childhood I was home-schooled by an oppressive and domineering mother whom I bitterly resented, and I came to associate those feelings of resentment with my education. As a teenager, I dropped out of high school. I now need to study in order to get my GED (General Educational Development tests), but whenever [...]

Q: I think I might be falling for my English professor. It is more than a naive school girl crush but I don’t know if it is merely lust or something more. He is constantly in my thoughts. I need some advice on what I should do. A: There are several reasons why we are [...]

I’m currently a contract firefighter in Iraq and I’ve been a firefighter for a total of about nine years. However, I’m looking to start a new career in counseling. I received my Bachelors in Psychology back in 2001 from UNC Greensboro with a minor in Sociology. I’m 36 years old and have a family, so [...]

Q: When I write I can’t see words in my mind’s eye. I use a dictionary constantly. I can’t chat online because the stress debilitates me to the point where I can’t spell the word “run” or even know what letter it begins with. I try to sound the word out with my mouth but [...]

Q: I’m a young guy, aged 20. I was a jovial person with a lot of friends, having a good life like every other young person my age but for the past two months I’ve been deeply depressed. I used to watch porn clips — from the age of 13 — but I started getting [...]

Q: Due to lack of funding our school was forced to take all the 6th and 7th grade students and put them in split classes. The students were told that they would have four teachers who would be teaching four 6/7 grade splits. At the beginning of the school year all the kids were rotated [...]