The following questions are related to ‘Parenting and Children’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Licensed Psychologist.
Q: Alright, so, I’m a fifteen-year-old girl currently doing grade ten. I eat far too much in the way of carbs, but other than that, I’m not too unhealthy. I procrastinate; I’m not the best friend to have due to my laziness; and I’ve never felt like I belonged anywhere. My problem is this: why […]
Q: I am 17 years old. Ever since I can remember, I have been emotionally and physically abused by my mother. My parents divorced when I was about five. She told me and my brother that if we chose to live with our father, we wouldn’t “have a mother anymore”. When they asked us in […]
Q: I am 21 years old and have been depressed for the past two years, reaching a point where I had to drop out of college in order to deal with it properly. I moved back home and have been living with my parents and two younger brothers (18 and 15) for the past six […]
Q: I have suffered with OCD since childhood. The things that bothered me ranged from fear of getting diseases, to religious thoughts. I would also fear that I was molesting my baby sister when I changed her diaper. Now I have become a mother, and the fear of touching my children inappropriately has been plaguing […]
Q: Divorce him or not? There is a child involved. We have been married for 15 years, but we are just roommates. I have wanted to divorce him from the moment we married but I got pregnant, and that child is now 13! I never loved him. We married for the wrong reasons, mainly because […]
Q: I am a 17-year-old female studying A levels whilst in a steady relationship with a 24-year-old man whom I love very much. The problem is that I am so comfortable with him that I really really want his baby. I am so broody that I will spend hours into the night researching pregnancy and […]
Q: My parents divorced when I was 4 years old, and I went to live with my maternal grandma. Both my parents remarried and I visited them during vacations. My mum is being treated for severe depression. She always puts the blame on me, yet she is sensitive and kind. My father was distant and […]
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