The following questions are related to ‘Anxiety and Stress’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Licensed Psychologist.
Q: My friend (yes, my friend) has problems socially. She has friends. She is smart. But she has no confidence. She can barely talk to me face to face. She only talks by text. She won’t take phone calls for the same reason that she won’t talk face to face. She detaches herself from people. […]
Q: I recently had an odd problem. I could communicate verbally well enough, but when I tried to type or write, the words came out jumbled and incoherent. This increased or decreased with the pressure or stress level of what I was writing. Cognitively I thought I was writing fully-formed words and sentences, but in […]
Q: I am 19 years old and a student. I have been living with roommates for the past year. I feel like I am going mad lately. I have always had a vivid imagination, as I was an only child, but lately I feel like it is going too far and I feel like I […]
Q: I’ve been in a relationship with a girl for about five months now, and it seems like every once in a while I get this extreme anxiety when I wonder certain things… To give you some background, when we met I had just come out of a relationship with someone who, during the whole […]
Q: I am 25-year-old man. After working for two years, I left my job to return to school. I applied for an MBA program, took the entrance exam but did not get a good score. However, I got calls from two good colleges, and school will begin for me in a few weeks. Now, I […]
Q: I need help with understanding my problem: is it a symptom of something, does it happen to others, maybe it has a name? I want to understand where it’s coming from and how to deal with it. I’m keeping myself from going to the toilet. When I feel the need to, in the morning, […]
Q: I’m 34 years old and female. I’m an IT manager, and I could continue my education. But there is something wrong with me that maybe nobody could believe. The big problem is fear of people. I can’t even order my staff to do something. I have the same problem in other places. I can […]
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