Q: My current live in boyfriend talks a lot about his ex-girlfriend. I knew before moving in with him she would always be a part of our lives. They have been mostly friends for years, except for a brief period of time when they intimately connected after the death of her husband, his best friend. [...]

Q: Months ago, my husband urged me to get my “head checked” due to deepening depression, nonexistent libido, self-isolation, forgetfulness, etc. So I go ahead and do just that and come to discover I’m in an abusive relationship with a probable narcissist. We’ve been together 14 years, married for 10, and have two beautiful little [...]

Q: I am from India, I am 26 years old, and I am very depressed about myself and my relationships. I went to Canada for higher studies and came back for my boyfriend. Because of distance we fought daily about small issues, but now I realize I have made the biggest mistake. Now I am [...]

Q: My neighbor committed suicide when I was 16. His family volunteered to clean up the mess, my father and I refused to let them, and we did it ourselves. It messed with me for a long time, and I sought counseling and honestly it doesn’t really bother me anymore (I am 21 now), but [...]

Q: My boyfriend and I have been dating for four and a half years. We were engaged two years ago, but that fell through — we both needed to take a step back. (We were fighting a lot and breaking up a lot.) Well, since that time I feel like I’ve been begging my boyfriend [...]

Q: I’m a sophomore university student. It’s known that university students love hanging out with their friends and meeting up with new people and interacting with different types of people. But I’m not one of those students. I try my best to stay away from my friends and colleagues. I don’t try to interact with [...]

Q: When I was 15, I was diagnosed with ADHD, but a traumatic memory from my childhood resurfaced recently and I started to look into dissociation. I was wondering how you can tell the difference between the two? My forgetfulness often extends into amnesia: my girlfriend will frequently ask me about something we did or [...]