Q: What do you call a person that does everything someone else does? Like for instance, say I take a shower in the middle of the day my husband will do the same, if I take one in the morning he will do it too. One morning I made some bacon and toast, he did [...]

Q: I suffer from situational shyness and I’m also bipolar. My bipolar is currently stabilized with carbamazepine and Paxil. I have always been shy to a certain degree but have worked very hard to overcome this stumbling block. When I was in high school I would actually become almost mute due to my anxiety. However, [...]

Q: I’m a 14-year-old girl and really I’m just stuck in the past. I can’t get over the fact that me and my old best friend are not friends anymore and now I’m so shy I never talk to anyone I used to talk to all the time. It’s like when I look at myself [...]

Q: I am a college girl. I went for a vacation 7 days ago. My friend’s mom is my life. I love her so much. She is my 1 best friend I knowwwwww it. I know I have particular space in her heart. But during vacation she avoided me and was always with her best [...]

Q: I wonder if at 28, it’s too little, too late to receive help/treatment? In my case, I have Asperger’s, which caused me to develop severe depression and schizoid personality, along with serious emotional & social skills deficits. So, I have missed out on all the childhood events, experiences, learning & developmental phases, stages of [...]

Q: Hi there! I have a question about, well, myself. I recently wrote a letter to a different psychologist, asking why I kept attracting needy people into my life. I tend to meet people who have a wide variety of psychological problems, and who call me and keep me on the phone for hours moaning [...]

Q: I wanted to know about severe social anxiety. I had it in college, and I still continue to have problems. I don’t know where to look when talking to people. I don’t know how fast or where to walk in the mall. It’s getting to the point where I don’t really want to go [...]