Q: I recently married a man I love dearly. But we aren’t living together yet and, to make matters worse, he is living with his ex’s parents. He has three teenage daughters, and only one likes me. He spends the whole weekend with his daughters. He spends some week days with me but I have [...]

Q: My wife is a 56-year-old mental health nurse who has been going through menopause and has recently become somewhat obsessed with her health. In particular, she has been experiencing periodic, daily heart palpitations for four to six months. She doesn’t sleep properly, hates her job, is always down and isn’t able to control her [...]

Q: What’s wrong with me? I always have very violent thoughts of hurting people and torture. I fear abandonment. I don’t feel as though I can trust people very easily. It’s hard for me to be open and completely honest with anyone because I feel it makes me vulnerable. I feel like I look at [...]

Q: I started dating my girlfriend almost two years ago. At first our sex life was completely normal, however, after almost a year my girlfriend got hurt during sex because of lubrication issues and also because I am bigger than average. She went to see a doctor, who confirmed that she did have a few [...]

Q: I would like to know if I’m claustrophobic or not, and whether it’s serious or not. I’ve been ignoring it my whole life, but I’ve started to feel that maybe it’s not right. Well, I think it started when I was a child. I heard my mother talking about a man who was buried [...]

Q: I have been seeing a therapist for nine months and I am just coming around to fully trusting her and feeling secure with her. I was initially referred to her for PTSD. Over the past few months, I have started developing and maintaining boundaries with people in my life. My adoptive mom happens to [...]

Q: I am 16 and have been trying to recover from bulimia for two years. It all started after I went on a strict diet, where I restricted myself to eating only one meal of fruits and vegetables a day. I succeeded in losing weight, but my life turned out to be terrible following that. [...]