Q: My 16-year-old does not care about school and gets in arguments with teachers and school staff. He has a job and does not mind working 30-40 hours a week, but will not study. His GPA is 2.05 and sinking towards a level that will not get him to college. I tried to cut his [...]

Q: We have been married for almost 6 years and are in our mid-30s. My wife has had a string of bad relationships prior to our meeting. Her parents or sibling do not want to get involved and she refuses to go to counseling to help our marriage. I had left my family 300 miles [...]

Q: Brief background: 10 years ago I went through a traumatic experience. My brother committed suicide, 6 months later my Mom died from cancer, 2 months later my dad committed suicide. I was very depressed, angry, confused and for the most part non-functioning for several years after this. At the same time, my boyfriend (BF), [...]

Q: My boyfriend is 28, I am 27. We have been together for 5 years now. Since I have met him he was “a trouble”, which means that he dropped out of school (he studied at university), but not because he couldn’t learn (he is very intelligent and a talented musician) — because he couldn’t [...]

Q: I have a 17-year old brother (the only son in family) who doesn’t act like a 17-year old teenager. He behaves more like a child of half his age. Our father passed away 5 years ago and our mother doesn’t pay enough attention to his problems. All of us, the other siblings, are staying [...]

Q: I’m 16 years old, and I live in Canada. I am starting to think that my mother, who is 35, has a mental illness. She doesn’t have an education, she is illiterate, and she had dropped out of school in the 2nd grade. Also, her mother has identical capabilities. She is capable of yelling [...]

Q: I and other family members honestly think that my mother is insane. I also think that my stepdad is the same way. My brother has already received psychiatric help for his anger issues. He’s had them almost his whole life. I thought he was improving, until my mom got worse and started driving me [...]