Archive for May, 2005

Daughter’s Report

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, May 31st, 2005
Q. My daughter Stephanie is doing a report for school on psychology. She needs to find out what a normal work week for a therapist is? And What their average pay is? Please answer soon since the report is due this week. We have ...

Relationship problems: What should I do?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Q. I've been a widow for almost 5 years and have been in a monogomous relationship for 4 years. About a year ago, my boyfriend proposed and I accepted with the understanding that I could not move forward with planning a wedding ...

My mothers behaviour

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Q. My mother has been suffering from mental health problems for the last 20 years. ever since the birth of myself and the death of her mother. When she refused help from her family and became a danger to my sister and I my ...

Side affects from Sexual Addiction?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Q. I have been having a relationship with a man for three years. I've been suspicious from time to time when I have found women's lingerie in his home. With in the past 9 months he confided in me that he was ...

No sex life since my wife is very far away

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Q. I'm staying away from my home country for the service purpose, and my wife is not with me. We meet every 6 months and enjoy sex and love each other, moreover staying away without sex this became very difficult for me, i want ...

Too Many Problems

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Q. I've been struggling for depression for a long time, exactly how long I'm not sure, but I know thoughts of suicide have been present since I was 14. I've waited this long to reach out for help, but when I tried to tell ...

Cutting and depression

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Q. I don’t know why ive been feeling really depressed and had the urges to start cutting myself and its the only that makes me feel better, this has happened before about 2 months ago and my lfie hasnt changed at all since then ...

Cutting,suicidal thoughts/attempts,can’t sleep…

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Q. My family and I moved to WA when I was 12. Shortly after that I began pulling out my hair. I would wake up at least 3 times every night. I had stopped pulling out my hair at the begging of 8th grade (13 ...

Consistent Episodes with Boyfriend’s ex-wife

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Q. My boyfriend's ex-wife is giving us fits. When it comes to anything, she has to have total "control" over it; it has to be her way or no way. If he even attempts to gain any kind of control over anything, ...

Is my dad displaying psychotic symptoms?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
Q. My father is approaching fifty, and when I still lived with my parents, he seemed to me very unstable and difficult to live with. Some of his behaviour is just outrageous in retrospect, but it's amazing, my family chooses to ignore it and ...

How to distance myself from a sociopathic girlfriend

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
Q. I' ve been going with my girlfriend for about 5 months now. Recently, she has began to steal from me. This is especially disturbing knowing that the closest person to me is the only person that has ever burned me. We ...

Abuse and abandonment by therapist

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, May 4th, 2005
Q. I have been dealing with severe PTSD for the past decade, a majority of it stemming from child abuse, neglect and abandonment. I worked weekly with my therapist for 9 years. She said because of what my mother and father had done, that she ...
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