The following questions are related to ‘Stockholm Syndrome’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
This list is sorted chronologically, from newest back to earliest.
Q: My brother and his new wife have been living alone in my house for over a year. They have been paying rent which amounts to a third of the cost of my mortgage. I felt it was a way I could help them out while they are finishing law school. I have been asking [...]
Q: How can I help my daughter recover from the effects of a year long emotionally abusive affair? She is a bright, intelligent, attractive 24-year-old girl, studying at university. Yet the affair has left her deeply depressed, and convinced that she cannot go on without this man, who has caused nothing but total misery. Things [...]
Q: Our daughter was recently diagnosed and hospitalized for a diagnosis of Schizophrenia. We have very little first-hand knowlegde as our son-in-law has distanced our relationship. We recently heard that she attempted suicide and it was very nearly successful. Our dauhter is 33 and has two young boys. She is educated. She resides in a [...]
Q: I’m a 25-year-old female struggling to recover from an emotionally and sometimes physically abusive childhood. I’m also battling Social Phobia / Avoidant Personality Disorder. Often, I kept my mouth shut and withdrew into myself to avoid conflicts and felt anxious when I could feel them brewing. Even now, watching others argue or fight distresses [...]
Q: My absuive ex-husband is getting married. I don’t understand why I’m upset and panicked. I’m engaged to be married myself and my past from hell is overshawdowing a promising future. He was my first real boyfriend. We met during our first year of college when we were both 18. The abuse started shortly thereafter [...]
Q: I have a question I’ve always wanted to ask a psychologist. Back in the late ’80s, I worked for a large animal clinic with a staff of veterinarians equally split between men and women. We had a client, a woman in her late 60s or early 70s, who apparently believed that women were inferior [...]
Q: I write you with a heavy heart. My 18 yr old daughter moved out yesterday to stay at her boyfriend’s house with his family. She basically did not want to follow rules that are established here. Since meeting and dating him she’s dropped out of high school, lost tremendous friends, lost interest in her [...]
