Q: I feel like a chameleon and because of that I hate myself. I grew up Mormon, but recently left my faith. Sometimes I feel that the beliefs of the church are false, but on other days I feel that they are true. I feel like a compulsive liar, especially to myself. Some days I [...]

Q: I’m a 19-year-old female, currently in the military. I’m a very laid-back and nonchalant person, and I believe I am very much in control of my emotions. It takes a lot to make me angry, and I rarely ever worry about things, even the things that I know I should worry about. For example, [...]

Q: I’ve decided that I do need therapy to overcome abandonment issues from both my parents. I constantly feel lonely and ultimately look to “emotionally unavailable” men for nurturing — but it always has the same outcome. I wind up being the caretaker of them, putting up with very abusive and avoidant behavior. (My mother [...]

Q: My ex of two years and I broke up in the middle of last year. While broken up we still hung out, slept together and talked as if we were still dating. New Year came around, and she invited me to come spend it with her. We slept together that night and afterwards she [...]

Q: In a recent conversation with my ex-wife, I discovered that she has taken a situation and completely reversed it, making up her own truth about it. When I moved out of the house, I left some of my clothes there. Her new boyfriend, now her husband, would once in a while wear some of [...]

Q: I am 45 years old and have had a moderately successful life in spite of knowing that I “stopped trying” around 12 years of age. Up until that time, I was two years ahead of my peers in school and was in the advanced classes of the students a year ahead of me. My [...]

Q: Why do I over analyze every single thing I do? I don’t know where to start because I have way too many thoughts. I think my main problem is I just can’t stop over thinking every single thing in or around my life: I analyze the cause, the effects, the effects of those effects [...]