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Family Repercussions from Son Molesting Child

My 15-year-old son molested our 5-year-old friend. After 5 months he has finally come clean with the truth to me. The next step is addmiting in court. His step father, who I also just married 6 months ago, has left the house because he can not handle the situation. His lack of involvment with the whole case effects his lack of understanding. He believes he has truly tried. He sees my son as a horrible child, "the devil," and finds it hard to see any ...

[Video] Psychiatrist Talks To Mom, Not Me

Q: I have bipolar disorder, along with ADHD and OCD. Recently, I have started going to see a psychiatrist about my issue. But when I go to her, I feel as though she doesn't ask ME how I am, she asks my mother. There are so many issues I need to tell her, but I simply do not feel like I can. I am worried about myself. All I want to do is lay in bed. Please, tell me what I need to do to ...

Girlfriend Still Interested in Ex

I'm a 15 year old high school student,who is deeply in love with a 17 year old,we've been going out for some time,and have, developed deep feelings for each other.Well,don't let our age change your opinion of my perception of "love" for starters. The problem,she occasionally brings up her ex. She has feelings for him,and constantly refers it as,a "Gothic" Romeo and Juliet,or Edward and Bella from Twilight. She also says,her"Past" haunts her,and she's done things.I really,love her,more than I can explain,but the feeling,of this,brings ...

[Video] Father-in-law Is Ruining My Marriage

Q: My Father In-law has been living with us for 2 years now. What started out as a temporary situation 3-6 months. Has turned out to be a permanent situation. Despite talking to him, he doesn’t help with expenses and hasn’t made an effort to move out.. We just bought a Condo and can't very well move out leaving him behind like we did once before 4 years back when our apartment lease was up. We just went our separate ways. He's Diabetic and still ...

What’s Happening to Me?

I have decided to post this on psych central instead of Yahoo answers, haha, I will hopefully get a more professional answer. I've always had anxiety issues and been prone to depression, but it's worsened over the last years. I have symptoms that may lead to a disorder of some type, but I'm not sure what, I was wondering if a Therepist here could give me a little answer... Here: *I have moods swings, I know most teenagers do, but Oh well. *I get hyper for weeks at ...

[Video] Do I Have OCD?

Q: OK, I been having a problem where if I see someone that's uneven or something it will bother me greatly and my mind tells me that if I don't fix it something bad will happen to my mom. It's weird, but say I'm reading a book and I skip a word my kind tells me to go back and start over or something will happen to my mom. There's many other things that I will "fix" but why would this happen towards my mom? ...

What does my dream mean?

Two weeks ago I had this dream: I woke up in a trailer, went out and yelled at my boyfriend's friend in the yard (they were being loud). I saw John Cena, followed him, and came to a huge nest of killer bees; he was riding a four-wheeler and was making the bees mad. The bees landed on me then after a while flew away and I ran into the woods. I was climbing on the trees like a monkey; I was naked with only ...

[Video] Is My Eating Disorder Serious?

Q: Hello. About four months ago I diagnosed myself with possible anorexia. I skip about 2 meals a day but I eat try to eat a full meal for dinner. I exercise for at least an hour daily. I am 16, my height is 5 foot 9 and my weight is 123 pounds. I want to ask for help from my parents but I am too scared they will be disappointed in me. I also do not think that my disorder is that serious. Should ...

[Video] Talk Of Parents’ Divorce Causing Depression

Q: My life was fine until I was in seventh grade, my parents were alright and I had amazing friends, until one night my parents told me and my siblings that my mom was thinking about divorce and how they were constantly fighting that single night brought everything down since then my parents were fighting all the time, my father would get drunk and start talking without knowing he was hurting my feelings, one night he almost hit my sister and my mom that marked ...

Is Schizophrenia Inheritable?

I really need some advice. My fiancé and I are having a problem. His mom has come to visit us and she's just not right. He warned me before that his mom has bipolar but didn't go into detail. For the first few days while here she was fine, it was wonderful! About five days in things began to change. It started with her not wanting to drink anything but sterilised water and no one else could open her water. That evening (the Friday) she woke ...

[Video] How Often Should I Meet With My Psychiatrist?

Q: I have been seeing my therapist for almost 2 years, and I just had my first psychiatrist appointment 2 weeks ago (per my therapist's referral). The psychiatrist wants me to come back every month, but I would much rather see my therapist more often. I think some insurance companies count the number of overall mental health visits per year and I don't want to "waste" them. I am "real" around my therapist and I know that it will take a long time for me ...

Is It a Panic Attack?

As of the last two months, i have been having what I'd like to believe are panic attacks, but I'm not really certain on that. Mainly because when they do occur there is no irrational fear of impending doom. My heart beat gets very rapid, my breathing gets ragged and I have sever chest pain until the "attack" ends. These "attacks" generally last anywhere between 10-25 minutes. Sometimes I get dizzy, and one of the times my entire left arm went numb for the ...

 

 
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