Q: I am a 20-year-old Chinese girl studying in the Netherlands. During weekends, I work part time in a massage salon and that is where I met my boyfriend. He is 23 year older than I am and is a very decent man, but he has been living with his partner for 13 years and [...]

Q: I had left for college but decided to withdraw and take the year off because a week after I arrived a huge psychological problem began. Along with my reluctance to eat, I started to close myself off from the rest of the dorm and from my roommate. She was concerned and told my resident [...]

Q: I know it is wrong to put feelings before actions, but that’s what I’m doing. I’m selfish. I am a spoiled child. I’m fully sponsored by my parents to pursue my studies at university, yet here I am, after three years of success in college…throwing all their hopes and dreams away. I really want [...]

Q: I recently had an odd problem. I could communicate verbally well enough, but when I tried to type or write, the words came out jumbled and incoherent. This increased or decreased with the pressure or stress level of what I was writing. Cognitively I thought I was writing fully-formed words and sentences, but in [...]

Q: I am 25-year-old man. After working for two years, I left my job to return to school. I applied for an MBA program, took the entrance exam but did not get a good score. However, I got calls from two good colleges, and school will begin for me in a few weeks. Now, I [...]

Q: I want to go to therapy. I have talked to my parents about it, and they’ve said they’re not going to take me because they don’t think I need it. I have a lot of self doubt, and I feel I cannot amount to anything in life. I feel this way because of my [...]

Q: I’ve never done anything like this before, so you’ll have to forgive me if I don’t know what to say… So, I am an 18-year-old girl, currently in high school. I had a relatively rough childhood, but I got through it in one piece and there isn’t anything overtly unusual about me except for [...]