Q: Why do therapists always ask how old my brother was when he sexually abused me? Over the years I’ve seen several therapists and they always ask that. What difference does it make? (So the answer is, I was 7 and he was 14.) A: This is a common question that is asked for several [...]

Q: I’m writing in response to the person who asked you for advice regarding their abusive father. I am in the same position, although I am still accepting that I have an abusive parent (this is my Mother). I have decided to detach from the family because of my Mother, but I am still in [...]

Q: I am a 34-year-old woman who just got married for the first time a few months ago. I met this guy I work with seven years ago. We have lived together and finally just got married. We just went and did it. No family or anything. We’ve now been married 2 months. His ex-wife [...]

Q: I am an Asian female student, poor background, uneducated parents. I know my parents love me and want nothing but the best for me…but I can’t help resenting them for the way they raised me…mostly isolated (fear of bad influences from other people). I’d always been a good student, straight A’s throughout school…but I [...]

Q: My fiance’s mother is having serious paranoid episodes. She has always had some form of paranoia, but her doctor has given her new pain medication for her back and it has triggered full paranoia. She is convinced people are in her attic waiting to come down and attack her; she’s called the police several [...]

Q: I feel like something is going wrong in my head. I’m currently taking 50mg of Zoloft daily for panic attacks. I’ve been taking it for about 3 months. My family physician had me on Paxil for several months for depression and then the panic attacks started. The panic attacks seem to be among the [...]