Q: Should we hang on? We met as friends when I was 12 and he was 14. I had no feelings about him when I met him, but he knew at that moment I was the one for him. He was pretty persistent, and I started to like him. By 13 I was totally in [...]

Q: I’m a 40-year-old female who has smoked for 25 years. Each time I’ve tried to quit, I get physical symptoms that I have read are normal and should go away. For example, I get a sore throat. For most people this lasts a couple of weeks. But mine lasts three months, which is as [...]

Q: I’m the mother of a boy who is clearly going through puberty. His voice is changing, he’s becoming more muscular, and his hormones appear to be raging. He is a very good looking young man and is very social and popular. The problem is that I don’t know if some of his behavior is [...]

Q: I’ve been with my girlfriend for little more than a month, and I’ve been more or less struggling with feelings of insecurity and jealousy the whole time. I’m not so much jealous of anything in the present as I am about things in my girlfriend’s past. I know she has had quite a lot [...]

Q: I am 24 years old. I used to be very successful in my studies. I was ranked second or third in my class. When I went to college six years ago, I got depressed and I don’t know why. I also couldn’t concentrate in my studies. I’d forget what I studied, even the things [...]

Q: I have been diagnosed with depression, and I am currently receiving treatment for it. However, I am still having a lot of anxiety as well as problems sleeping. Is there anything that I can do to help with these these things besides just taking the medication I’ve been given? I am in a perpetually [...]

Q: I have a friend whose father was a deadbeat and an alcoholic who abandoned his family. In the father’s absence his older brother took over. This brother beat him and his sisters. I think he was also molested by this older brother. My friend’s older brother sounds almost criminally insane. He shows no remorse. [...]