Q: I’m only 20 years old but have lived a miserable life since my dad left over 10 years ago. It’s been only me and my mom in the house. I grew up with my mom taking her anger out on me and was taught to take my anger out the way she did. When [...]

Q: I have been running away from my spouse and two adult children. My spouse has to work all the time to pay the bills, and I don’t like it. I also quit my job, but instead of spending more time at home I go other places to avoid my family. My sons treat me [...]

Q: I am a 25-year-old woman without any experience with sexual intercourse. Still, I have a high sex drive, and I am concerned that lately I haven’t been able to control sexual signals I might be sending with my eye contact. I think I might be involuntarily sending a lot of people I talk to [...]

Q: I am a 27-year-old woman truly, madly, and deeply in love with a 24-year-old man. When we met, I never thought our relationship would go anywhere because of cultural and age differences. But day by day we are more compatible than we thought, and we have now been together 4 months. We almost have [...]

Q: My question is fairly simple, and I hope that you can answer it. What I want to know is if there really is an effective treatment for social phobia. If I went to a psychologist or other professional, how how long would it take for me to tackle the problem? Also, can you give [...]

Q: I’m 13 years old, and I live in China. There are no psychologists in my area who can see me. I believe I have an anxiety disorder. I frequently get scared that I will lose my mind or start having a heart attack in class. I get dizzy if a teacher asks me a [...]

Q: I’m a 27-year-old female and lately I feel like I’m going crazy or out of my mind. I didn’t get the best start in my life, and things have been bad for awhile. I lost my step-dad to cancer and a stroke at age 13. He was like a real dad to me and [...]