Q: I’m 21, I am currently in a five-year relationship, and it’s been rocky recently. I’m very verbal — I like talking things out and finding solutions. My boyfriend, on the the other hand, would rather pretend things never happened and he refuses to talk to me about any of our problems. And I mean [...]

Q: I keep thinking there’s something wrong with me. There are many different cases where I act completely irrationally or just plain weird. For example, three months ago my mum told me that I may be going for my dream holiday — which I have dreamed about for three years! And what did I do? [...]

Q: I’m a 27-year-old woman in a sticky spot. I seriously do not know how to leave my issues behind me in order to be myself with this man whom I love to death. He is my everything, yet I am unable to be myself — I have to keep putting on a protective mask [...]

Q: Why do I always feel deep emotional pain for another person’s misfortune, whether I personally know that person or not? Deep sadness and anxiety come with this emotional pain, when I “feel” for what the other person is feeling or going through, or what the other person is going to have to feel or go through. This usually [...]

Q: I’m 19 years old; I was 18 when this happened. I had just broken up with my first love, whom I was with for over a year, so I was completely vulnerable and didn’t want to be alone. I met a guy right away and started dating him. About a month later, we were [...]

Q: I have met a nice man, but sometimes he has strange outbursts. I have tried to find more information on them, but I don’t know what they are called. During the outbursts he manically denies everything, lies, rationalizes — in all possible ways refusing to encounter the thing discussed. I know all of these [...]

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 [...]