Q: I am wondering what I can expect from joint counseling sessions with my mother, who has a Cluster B Personality Disorder. Though I am comfortable with low to no contact (as are my children and my husband), I do sometimes long for a normal relationship with my mother and for her to have a [...]

Q: I’m 23 years old and in the past two years I have developed an anxiety disorder. It wasn’t so bad at first — it would only bother me at certain times. Now it is so severe it’s with me 24/7, to the point where I can no longer function as I used to! I [...]

Q: I’m debating whether or not I should seek help in therapy for my anxiety and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, which have worsened recently. Although I would really like to do so, there are a couple of issues that are holding me back. I saw a psychologist a while ago and, strangely enough, my worst anxiety occurred during [...]

Q: In 2007, I was diagnosed with Bipolar I and PTSD from years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse in childhood and early adulthood. Today I saw a new psychiatrist and she added adult ADD/ADHD and dissociative disorder to my diagnoses. Is it possible or common for psychiatrists to miss or combine some diagnoses/symptoms in [...]

Q: I’m a 40-year-old male with TBI (traumatic brain injury) and have been diagnosed with treatment resistant depression and severe anxiety disorder. I am also an alcoholic, although I am proud to say I have only had two slips in 1 1/2 years. A few months ago, I lost my job, and three weeks ago I was [...]

Q: I’m 15. I have been having feeling worthless and helpless for about three years, ever since I moved from my old town and started middle school. I feel like my friends don’t really care about me. They just act like it because they ‘have to.’ And although my parents do care about me a [...]

Q: I’m Romanian and moved to Italy three years ago. They’ve been the worst years I’ve ever had. In the same year I moved to Italy, I discovered that my first love cheated on me all the time. So the pain was deeper: I’ve changed country, my boyfriend left me, and I’ve lost my friends. [...]