Q: I am an 18-year-old girl heading off to college in a few months. To be honest, this is a moment I have looked forward to most of my life, mostly because it means I will no longer have to live with my critical mother. I feel like the way she acts isn’t aceptable, but [...]

Q: I have been feeling a lot of stress and depression lately. Inflicting myself with pain is the only thing that will calm me down. I will do or take in anything to make myself unhealthy, even though I know that it is not healthy and that I shouldn’t be doing that. I haven’t been [...]

Q: Why do I over analyze every single thing I do? I don’t know where to start because I have way too many thoughts. I think my main problem is I just can’t stop over thinking every single thing in or around my life: I analyze the cause, the effects, the effects of those effects [...]

Q: How do you talk to a therapist or psychologist or psychiatrist when the bulk of your problems stem from the fact that you can’t (big letters CAN’T) open your mouth in the first place to talk about anything of any depth whatsoever? What about when you get so frustrated by your inability to speak [...]

Q: My boyfriend has been spending a lot of money lately on an online poker game. Right now he’s broke, and he only told me now because he was so ashamed. I’m glad he told me. I told him I would help him, and I didn’t get mad but WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO? [...]

Q: Please help. My son is almost 7 years old and has always been a very healthy, happy little boy. In fact he was the child that every book was ever written about. Until about a week ago… He came running into the house telling me about the story of Bloody Mary” and how they [...]

Q: I’m scared and desperate. I am currently being emotionally abused by my sister and my brother-in-law. I’ve had to stay with them because I suddenly lost my rental home. Due to rising rents and being on a disability pension, I’ve found it extremely difficult to find somewhere to live. I help out around the [...]