The following questions are related to ‘Workplace’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
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Q: I am married for 15 years now and of late have been working late hours. Tired and exhausted I come home expecting a welcome and some love and my wife is tired of waiting for me so she decides to go to sleep. I want love and can’t get it now. My wife knows [...]
Q: I suffer from situational shyness and I’m also bipolar. My bipolar is currently stabilized with carbamazepine and Paxil. I have always been shy to a certain degree but have worked very hard to overcome this stumbling block. When I was in high school I would actually become almost mute due to my anxiety. However, [...]
Q: Hard question. I have a friend/co-worker of 6 years who in the recent past has displayed some sexually deviant behavior towards me. What should I do? Everything started about a year after he got married; we had been friends for about 1 year before that. He started coming into the office paying me visits, [...]
Q: I am being stalked on the internet by a loser. I own a turn base game site with a forum, and kicked this loser out of it for attacking other players verbally and being verbally abusive and threatening to me after I repeatedly warned him to stop. He then joined a site group at [...]
Q: I work at a nursing home. We have a resident that cannot be easily be redirected. She walks non-stop, back and forth even when she is exhausted, and she repeats the same thing over and over again. She has a few behavior meds that apparently are not doing a whole lot of good and [...]
Q: I’m 21 yrs old. I’m a graduate and now I’m employed. My problem is that sometimes my mind is fully desperated and I lose all my confidence and feel lonely. But on the other hand, sometimes I feel fully free. I can’t keep a stable mind. A: From the situation you describe, you may [...]
Q: I cannot stop thinking about a job that I lost over 17 years ago. For 9 years I was very committed to an employer and had built a team which made him very wealthy. I did an exceptional job, going well beyond the call and never asked for compensation while weathering his numerous bad [...]
