The following questions are related to ‘Social Skills’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Licensed Psychologist.
Q: I’m a 19-year-old male from Australia. I am pretty sure I’m suffering from anxiety. I even think I know the cause. Whenever I am unsure about something in my relationship with my girlfriend, I start to panic. I can’t help it. It isn’t a ‘conscious’ decision, it just happens. If the unsure feeling is […]
Q: I have found that now that I am older (just turned 50), the men I attract are “lower quality” than the ones I used to attract. Just because I’m older, does it mean I have to settle for less? I don’t mean to sound narcissistic, but I used to “turn heads” whenever I entered […]
Q: When my husband’s cell phone lost some of it’s programming today, he came to me complaining about it. I told him that I had not touched his phone. He then went off, proceeding to march around the house, and finally leaving in a huff. He then told me that my tone to him was […]
Q: My husband and I have been together for eleven years and have a recurring problem with our communication process. We’ll be having a conversation about something. My husband is a bit of a hog of the conversational floor. He ends up giving monologues about things, and at some point I will interject — in […]
Q: There is a man, whom I am interested in, who is an outside contractor for my employer. When he greets me over the telephone, he will say “Hi, how are we today?” Why not, “Hi, how are YOU?” Is it possible that he’s trying to distance himself? Is he thinking possibly of us as […]
Q: I have constantly had low self-esteem since a young age and have been an emotional wreck in terms of my maturity my whole life. I have had very little quality in my friendships but never really questioned why, so I lived my life in self-sabotage, acting like a clown to get attention, not trying […]
Q: I make up people and various scenes and “play them out” in my head. It’s like having a soap opera in my mind. I usually do this while listening to music and pacing. I have done this since I was a child. I don’t hear voices or anything like that. I just visualize people […]
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