Q. I was the person who asked the question calle "Weird Symmetry Thing". You suggested I tell my parents. Well, I've told my parents several times and they either laugh it off or tell me to chill and stop being so tense. This also happens when I avoid cracks in the ground, and when I tell them I can't stop picking my face they tell me over and over that it's bad and i sould stop otherwise I'll damage my face. I KNOW that, but they don't understand that I can't just stop! I've told them so many times too, so I don't know what do. The time when I was avoiding cracks and my dad told me to chill, I got annoyed. He got ...  
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Q. Hi, my boyfriend is suffering from depression and he refuses to get help for it. He started telling me last year that he was depressed and he would cry to me and when he drank alcohol it would get even worse. He has said several times that he wants to kill himself. I kept telling him that he needs to see a therapist, but he refuses to go. His parents have also tried to get him to go,but he won't. He's 20 years old so he can't be forced to go. Sometimes he gets verbally abusive to me and I know that it's not right for him to do it, so I recently broke up with him. I told him that ...  
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Q. I have been seeing psychiatrist(s) for over 5 years now and feel I have progressed into other illness categories. At the time originally, I was diagnosed as Bipolar Atypical w/Psychotic fea. I was hospitalized 6 or 7 times since then with a past history of substance abuse (usually related w/hospitalization). I have since been clean for 1 year which I know is only a short time. I feel depressed every single day even if I have a somewhat good day, I still feel that rotten feeling inside as I have complete low self esteem issues. I have beat myself up over and over for the past and have had life threatening traumas happen which I consistently keel over about now knowing this is ...  
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Q. This year has been a difficult one for me, I lost my job at a company that was bought out and sold, so now I am living on unemployment and have returned to college. Before my job ended, I took classes to be a real estate agent; I have since quit and retired my license. The following will explain why I retired my license and went back to school. I have been stalked by a woman (I am also female) since December 2, 2004. She was my real estate teacher for my salesman license, cram course and finally at the end of 2004 my broker license. Her livelihood depends on her reputation, not only for teaching, but also for her real estate career (20 ...  
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Q. I recently have been completely out of character for myself. I've had alot of excess stress, but I still don't think it indicitive of how I've been acting. I'm usaully a shy and quite person. Lately I've been bouncing off the walls. I'll have these extreme moodswings and the periods in which they happen keep getting closer and closer. I'll be superhappy one minute and the next I'll be very sad or angry. For no particular reason my mood will change instantly and I can't remember why I was so happy or sad. When I'm happy thoughts will race through my head and I'll be on one thought and then go to complete other one for no reason. It happens at no particular time, ...  
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Q. I have this thing with symmetry. I NEED symmetry. If, for instance, I hit my elbow on the table, I have to hit my other elbow on the table so that it feels the same as the first one. This goes for anything touching me. It's also with things and people around me too. I get really uncomfortable when someone has asymmetrical clothes or a hairstyle or anything. I can't look at them if they won't change it, because it bugs me and I can't deal with it! It drives me crazy. I thought I was the only one like that, but it turns out one of my friends is the same way: she needs the same amount of bracelets on each hand, ...  
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Q. My friend came to me today and told me that she has been cutting herself. I see therapist and get help for what I am going through but when she speaks to her fasther about this he tells her to just stop it and grow up. I told her I would search for any advice, because she is in a tough spot. I am going to look for any advice that I can find but I am not sure what to tell her. I told her that I once went through this and that anytime she needed me I was here for her, I just wish I could tell her more to help her out. She might be moving out, and honestly I ...  
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Q. We're told so many times NOT to think in black-and-white terms and I think, in part, that means understanding that the "always" and "never" rarely, if ever, apply. Yet a large number of people seem to think that EVERY person should want to live and something must be seriously wrong with them if they don't. Maybe some people just aren't meant to. I think I'm one of those people. A. Some people do not want to live because their life is so painful that there seems to be no other option—and that is unfortunate that life becomes that way for some people. But when a person gets to the point when they do not see the value in living, something has ...  
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