Q: Something has been bothering me for a while, and I don’t know if it’s some kind of avoidance disorder. I also fear it may lead to a depression. The thing is I just can’t express my emotions, so they’ve been bottling up over the years and driving me crazy! I’m a 23-year-old guy and [...]

Q: I’m a 20-year-old woman dating a 22-year-old pre-op transman. My boyfriend was born female, but rejected his gender identity of ‘woman’ four years ago and is now scheduled for transformative surgery soon. At the beginning of our relationship we never fought. Every day was an adventure, and I was so thrilled to have found [...]

Q: My friend has a problem. She says she has a chemical imbalance in her brain, and from everything I’ve talked about with her, I don’t doubt it. She has extreme OCD and a pretty negative self-image, all of which gather together into a huge…something like a ball of stress and pain that is ruining [...]

Q: I am a little bit of a stalker. What should I do to break this habit? A: Hmmmm… A little bit of a stalker as in, “I occasionally look at my exes’ Facebook pages and monitor my friends’ online activities a few times a week?” Or a little bit of a stalker as in, [...]

Q: I frequently feel the need to force myself to feel emotional pain by imagining a distressing situation (e.g., imagining a painful breakup, imagining my last words when I die, etc.). I am not normally ‘satisfied’ until I cry uncontrollably to the point where I feel physical chest pains and fall asleep. I usually feel [...]

Q: I have thoughts and sometimes images of killing people I know, and thoughts that I’ve hurt a child, although I have no intention of doing anything like that. So I will check them over and over again. I always find myself checking things over and over for fear something bad will happen, and I [...]

Q: I have a friend who is very close to me. Recently she just suddenly stopped eating and her self-esteem dropped to a point of no return. I’m really worried. She doesn’t even know what’s wrong with her. She’s afraid to let her parents know. She has half the symptoms of a depressive disorder. I’m [...]