The following questions are related to ‘Responsibility’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Licensed Psychologist.
Q: I’m a 38-year-old male and I’ve had counseling before. I’ve also spent over ten years in Twelve-Step programs for sexual compulsion (SLAA / SAA) due to compulsive isolating and use of pornography. I am not a ‘troller’, although when I was younger that’s what got me hooked on the internet. ‘Trollers’ spend hours and […]
Q: I’m having a problem, and I’m really suffering from it. I have this idea all the time that I’m going to lose my mom any minute. She isn’t sick, so I don’t know why I’m feeling like that. I know very well that if she passed away I wouldn’t survive this disaster. I love […]
Q: A friend of mine (I’ll call him Mark) was involved in a work-related accident half a year ago that caused a death. Mark was responsible for a tall scaffold being built at his workplace. He’d been building it with a colleague and close friend who worked for the same company. The friend was in […]
Q: I’ve been having a very big problem for four years, and not long ago I realized that it had taken over my life and nearly destroyed it. My younger sister thinks that being a robot is a great thing. She doesn’t want to have a discussion, even when the fault is hers. She began […]
Q: My closest friend is going through a depression. Since she is keeping up appearances to me and does not want anyone to know about it (she never shows her feelings), I only hear about what’s going on from other sources, and I worry a lot. She’s 15 and she’s very talented. We are extremely […]
Q: I am a teen, and last year I got pregnant. I made a decision and had an abortion. I’ve started taking pills now, and all works well, but I have been having less sex because of the fear of becoming pregnant again. Some boyfriends even complain, but I’ll never tell them why. With every […]
Q: I am 21 and broke up with my boyfriend of five years last year in July. He’s a wonderful boyfriend, but I didn’t like the relationship we were in; it felt like we were an old boring married couple. Two weeks after we broke up, I met a guy at a club. He was […]
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