Q: I’ve been seeing a psychologist for depression for a few months now, and I’ve noticed that like most (if not all) therapists, she takes notes during our sessions. I was just wondering, am I allowed to ask her what she is writing about me? I’m just curious as to what sort of impression I [...]

Q: I have a compulsive need to do what I call starting over. It started when I was 10. I would blink my eyes to start over — and be perfect, that is. I would tell myself that I need to walk, talk, think and act perfectly. I have spent years blinking constantly. Now that [...]

Q: I have been married to my husband for five years now. He has a thyroid disorder and has also been diagnosed with depression. He had these problems before we were married. Most days he is the most loving and helpful husband and father to our kids, but sometimes when we get into an argument [...]

Q: I had left for college but decided to withdraw and take the year off because a week after I arrived a huge psychological problem began. Along with my reluctance to eat, I started to close myself off from the rest of the dorm and from my roommate. She was concerned and told my resident [...]

Q: I believe I have a serious inability to form romantic relationships. I am 20 years old and have not had a romantic relationship in several years. When I was a toddler, I was psychologically traumatized by other infants at my nursery school. I was also bullied quite badly throughout my school years and have [...]

Q: My sister was diagnosed six weeks ago with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (a rapidly progressing degenerative brain disease). She is my only sibling and I am having such a difficult time dealing with all of this. My parents are in their mid-70s and it breaks my heart to see them go through this loss, as it [...]

Q: I am 18 years old. I live alone with my mother in a large, four-bedroom house just minutes away from siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles. About six years ago we moved from California to Oregon. I honestly cannot tell you the reason for this; my only assumption is that my sister got knocked up [...]