The following questions are related to ‘Abuse and Trauma’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Licensed Psychologist.
Q: After a history of childhood abuse, a friend of mine was in a 30-year emotionally, sexually and physically abusive marriage. She was made to feel guilty if she didn’t agree to a quick engagement, followed quickly by marriage. She was told she wasn’t pretty and that she wouldn’t find another man to love her. […]
Q: I am a seventeen-year-old girl, and I am fully blind as a result of cancer when I was six. I have had it said to me before that my maturity level might not be what it should be at seventeen because of the trauma I suffered from the cancer at such a young age. […]
Q: My girlfriend and I have been together for 4 years but just recently separated. She told me that I am selfish and have an inability to take responsibility for my actions. She also says that I have a real problem with thinking that I am going to be in trouble, which probably stems back […]
Q: I’m 19, in college, and have been depressed silently for almost all this year. I saw a counsellor twice in mid-year, mainly due to concerns about my academic progress. Then as the second semester started I had more trouble and felt myself falling apart. So I went and saw another counsellor and she has […]
Q: I am a 31-year-old woman, raised in a very conservative family. My father was abusive and violent; my mother is vulnerable, with low self-esteem. I have always been criticized and insulted by both. I grew up with a sense of low self-esteem, insecurity and diffidence, although I’m pretty and have always been superior in […]
Q: I am a 28-year-old female. My parents had me very young (16 and 19). They divorced when I was 3 years old, and my mum moved in with her boyfriend; my brother and I stayed with my dad. I was very close to my dad as a little girl. I suppose you could call […]
Q: I just want to know if you can give me at least an idea of what’s happening to me. It seems that I don’t have the ability to cry any more. Do my past experiences have something to do with this? I lost my father at 11 and my mother by 16; my only […]
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