By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Monday, September 25th, 2006
Q: I've been with my girlfriend for about three years now. We had a normal sex life up until about a year ago, when she started refusing to give oral sex, but still wanted me to give it to her. The thing that confused me ...
By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Monday, September 25th, 2006
Q: My aunt has just passed away a month ago. She committed suicide and behind her she has left her husband 2 sons who are 13 and 6. The older boy had learnt to cope with the fact that is mother is no longer around ...
By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Monday, September 25th, 2006
Q: I recently had a blowout with my 24 yo stepson. He had come over with laundry for his mother to do and I had made some comment about why he doesn't do it himself. In truth I don't even know why it ...
By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Monday, September 25th, 2006
Q: My ex and I broke up about a month ago so she could recover from heroin addiction. She cheated on me while on drugs with a girl in another city and is keeping her on as what she calls her "rebound girl" until she ...
By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Monday, September 25th, 2006
Q: my gf of about a year i'm pretty sure has ocd, and it makes things between us kind of hard because i try to understand but sometimes cant. She will take her shoes off five or six times until it feels "Ok" for her. ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, September 25th, 2006
Q. My uncle had a mental illness and since it happened when he was around 21 and many years ago, we do not have a report from the hospital he was admitted to in order to confirm whether he had Schizophrenia or some other ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, September 25th, 2006
Q. I was hospitalized at 17 with a drug induced psycosis for two weeks after using majic mushrooms. My whole life fell apart as it was exam time. I decided to move to the U.S.A. with my boyfriend. We were married, had two beautiful children ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, September 25th, 2006
Q. I was engaged about 7 months ago. My ex fiance started having really bad anxiety attacks. She was failing college and all of a sudden decided it was my fault. She started calling me a month ago. Asking to see me and she ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, September 25th, 2006
Q. I have had an unbalanced childhood and had to grow up fast to raise my little brother - but that is a whole book on its own. I have always had anxiety - bad anxiety. I shake from when I wake up until I ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, September 25th, 2006
Q. About 5 years ago, I had sex several times with a 17-year-old boy. I am attracted to teenage boys but that is the only time I acted on it. I worked with this boy at the time and developed a crush on him. Then ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, September 25th, 2006
Q. I have had depression before it was whe i was 14. but lately i feel like i did then as far as like just crying all of the time. i feel tired, sad, i feel sick to my stomach.... i also have a lot ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, September 25th, 2006
Q. As a result of sexual, emotional, and physical abuse beyond the imagination, I have been diagnosed with PTSD since the age of 17. I have failed in school, failed in relationships (married 4x), failed at working a job, and failed my children (they were ...