Q: I have major depression and anxiety and am doing extremely well under the care of a psychiatrist who has prescribed a MAOI. Will an extra high level of frustration, anxiety, and stress produce a very high degree of pain and discomfort never experienced ever before in life? Could it cause a physical condition such [...]

Q: I’m 20 and I’m a compulsive liar — at least, a self-diagnosed one. I recently came clean on all my long-standing fabrications to my girlfriend and closest friends, and in the process I lost all or most of them I’m pretty sure. So now I’m depressed, dealing with a breakup, and have low self-esteem [...]

Q: Why am I so lazy? I didn’t used to be like this until I got into high school. I went from merely procrastinating — not doing my work until the last minute — to doing my work after the due date, to not doing my work at all. I’m suddenly feeling like I just [...]

Q: I am an eighteen-year-old female. I fear that I have psychological issues and have had them since the age of fifteen but I am afraid to open up or seek help. My questions are: whether or not I should seek help and if so, how to go about it. I currently have major issues [...]

Q: I am 23 years old. I’m an outgoing and positive person. I have always been very emotional, but for about a month now I get really nervous, impatient and/or restless. I don’t want to go out. I prefer to stay home because I think that outside I will get more and more irritated by [...]

Q: I have been verbally abused in the past and later on I verbally abused other people. At first it made me feel better, but now I feel really bad that I lowered myself to his or her standards. Now I find myself muttering under my own breath thinking, “did I just say that when [...]

Q: I am a 33-year-old guy from Greece. The last year and a half I have been seeing a therapist. She has helped me more than any other person in my life until now. About four months ago I told her how much I feel close to her and how much I appreciate her help. [...]