The following questions are related to ‘Sleep’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: Ever since I was a little girl, I can remember times when I woke up not being able to remember the events of the previous day. Slowly, things would come back to me. I never forgot who I was, where I was, or anything like that, but I woke up in a state of [...]
Q: I’m a 15-year-old girl, and I am too afraid to sleep alone in my room. So, I go sleep with my mom. I know this is not normal and that I must have a problem. I’m simply too afraid to be by myself. In 3 years I’m going to be an adult. How am [...]
Q: OK, I’m not hearing voices exactly. I am being treated for depression (Zoloft 100 mg) and Seroquel 25 mg at night to help me sleep. I’ve been on Zoloft for 15 years and the Seroquel for about three years. For many years, however, and even before I started the above meds, when I’m lying [...]
Q: At what age should a child no longer be sleeping in a parent’s bed, especially when the adult/adults sleep naked? I know that parents tend to have open nudity with their children a lot, but it makes me very uncomfortable when I wake in the middle of the night and find my boyfriend’s 7-year-old [...]
Q: I’m a 25-year-old female. In October 2008 I began experiencing a tightening feeling in my throat and feeling of tingling in my mouth/tonsils. I had been under some stress at work, and at first the feeling would come and pass — but after awhile I couldn’t stop obsessing over it. I researched on the [...]
Q: My question concerns my husband’s practice of still putting his 10-year-old to bed. She is my step-daughter, and her dad and I are recently married. I understand based on asking him that when she is at home, she sleeps with her mother. She has a 14-year-old sister who does not have this problem. What [...]
Q: I have been on Prozac for some time, apparently without side effects. I am now 48 and menopausal and have struggled this year to find a natural or unnatural HRT (hormone replacement treatment) therapy that works for me. My doctor changed the antidepressant to Lexamil (a generic escitalopram) about a month ago, 20mg — [...]
