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 [...]

Q: I have a friend who is extremely depressed. He feels as though everyone hates him. In the past, he has made up lies basically to get attention. Now, even after he has admitted it and apologized, everyone deems him a liar and talks about him behind his back. He feels the need to put [...]

Q: I have a question about something I experienced many years ago and would like to know if I am drawing the correct conclusions from what happened to me. I was a student and 21 years old when a professor asked me to do some work for him. I suffered from low self-esteem because of [...]

Q: Why am I so lazy? I didn’t used to be like this until I got into high school. I went from merely procrastinating — not doing my work until the last minute — to doing my work after the due date, to not doing my work at all. I’m suddenly feeling like I just [...]

Q: I’m a 20-year-old girl who’s suffering from paralysing social self-doubt and anxiety. I don’t know if I really have a medical condition, but your advice would help me a lot. I am a Chinese immigrant in Australia; I’ve been here for at least nine years now. From the outside I look like someone totally [...]