Q. I have struggled with depression and anxiety for much of my life. When I was four, my mother entered me into therapy and I was later diagnosed with dsythymia and generalized anxiety disorder. I stopped therapy at the age of 14, and later attended family sessions to benefit my younger sister (focused on her). At age 19 I began having inexplicable panic attacks whenever I tried to attend my college courses and had to withdraw. I entered counseling briefly and the therapist declared me healthy and ended our sessions. By age 23, I had been struggling with severe highs and lows coupled with intense anxiety and the insomnia that had been with me from my youngest days (I said I was unable to ...  
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Q. I am seeking advice for my present condition that I call paralyzing depression, overwhelming feelings of being watched and monitored. Also feelings of extreme helplessness and paralyzing depression. I am currently being treated at a state facility as an outpatient after being hospitalized in a state hospital which made my condition worse due to ill treatment while in the hospital. My after care has not worked; the medicines given have been exasperating, the ones for day make me sleep and the ones to help me sleep keep me up all night. I have also been diagnosed with ADD, borderline personality, but I have stopped my adderall because family members and my fiance' reacted-saying that the adderall was the whole problem. Obviously that is not ...  
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Q. I let my brother sexually abuse me years on i cant live with it. my brother first started when i was about 7 with a friend he made me get into bed with them they were about 9 and they tried to penatrate me. nothing else happened till i was 13 my brother started to sit by me and stroke me i was scared to say anything i let him do it i let him abuse me this went on regullary till i was 16. i remember when i was about 11 or 12 he asked me if i masturbated i didnt understand and said i would ask dad but he hit me and told me not to. when it all started again ...  
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Q. For the past couple of years I have been extremely down and suicidal. I went to a counselor when I was 15 for 3 months but had a very hard time opening up so ended up lying. It was a waste of time and I felt equipped to handle things by myself so I stopped going. I was okay for about a year but then things began to get progressively worse. Firstly, I started to feel very sad about my whole life and then suicidal thoughts came. There were many times where I was desperate to kill myself but didn't as I knew how selfish it was. I overdosed on sleeping tablets but managed to sick them back up, so no real damage was ...  
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Q. I've been suffering from depression on and off since i was a freshman in college, and now I'm starting to wonder if it isn't something else. I've always had a bad temper. I chocked it up to being an only child, spoiled brat kind of thing. It got better for a while when I was in college, but it's worse than ever now that I am married. As I read more about BPD, the more I think it sounds a lot like me. However, I don't think I'm so bad that I need to be hospitalized or anything; I don't cut myself and have never attempted suicide. I would say that I'm a generally high functioning individual. But when it comes to my relationship ...  
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Q. My sister is 23 and always teased in school for being an outcast for the last 4 years she has become a nightmare to deal with she is very abusive verbally.She also lies allot about the most unimportant subjects.Whenever I try to speak to her about anything in my life it's like she changes into another personality and starts using big words and degrading me for know reason like she is a psychologist or something.She is very selfish and she also spend every dollar she makes on expensive clothing and going out to night clubs I believe she does this so that she can pretend to be more successful then she really is and because the people that she knows out in the ...  
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I met this man online 4 months ago who is a divorced father of 3 kids. We hit it off. Due to the distance we have only seen each other a couple of times. We talked on the phone daily but I think I was suffocating him. He told me I should still call him but he would call me back when he had time and asked me to be patient between calls.

As the holidays hit he started to get really depressed remembering how things were prior to his divorce. He was married for 14 years. In addition his ex started contacting him and his kids (1 teen and 2 preteens) don't want him to date .

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6YRS AGO MY HUSBAND BECAME DISABLED(BLIND). SINCE THEN WE HAVE HAD MANY PROBLEMS. THE WORST ARE HIS AFFAIRS. TWO YRS AGO HE MOVED IN W/HER AND ASKED FOR A DIVORCE. A MONTH LATER HE SAID HE WAS SORRY, THAT HE LOVED ME, AND THAT HE WAS WRONG FOR WHAT HE DID. LIKE A FOOL I BELIEVED HIM. SINCE THEN, THINGS HAVE BEEN NO BETTER HE STILL HAS LOTS OF ISSUES WITH HIS BLINDNESS WHICH OF COURSE ARE MY FAULT. I HAVE HELPED THIS MAN MORE THEN I SHOULD HAVE. MY FRIENDS TELL ME TO LEAVE HIM. HE DOES NOT APPRECIATE ALL THE THING I DO FOR HIM. THE PROBLEM IS HE STARTED ANOTHER AFFAIR BECAUSE HE ...  
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I have been with my boyfriend a year and 1/2. When i met him and I asked him all about him. "How old are you?, do you have kids?, who do you live with?" the typical questions. As time went by i fell in love with him I knew he had a kid with a woman in his country, but did not know he was still married to her. It broke my heart. He promised me that his relationship was over and that he only sends her money for his son. He made me believe that the relationship is over and till this day he says he wants nothing to do with her, but can't tell her that he ...  
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I started dating this guy i met over the internet for 4 months now and it seems we fight every week about the same issue. Apparently i have a problem with everything. All my ex boyfriends are still my friends because we were friends from the start and they know me well! I also have a lot of male friends that my boyfriend doesn't like because hes jealous. And i know i do do things that make him unsure but i love him. He says im immature, attention craving, spoiled and a liar. Now all these things he says to me are hurtful and i hear it every week but i love him in the end. He is making me see a shrink because awhile ...  
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My fiance of 2 years recently left and decided he needed time away.He wouldnt talk to me at all but came over one night i believe for a "booty call" and made kept saying how he loved me and didnt want anyne else. I sat there and thought the day after about how can that be true if he won't talk to me and says he has to move out of the apt. He says all these things but i haven't seen him and when he came over one day when i wasnt there he left hs phone behind and in it were calls from a girl and text messages that were kinda decieving to me and so i confronted him about it ...  
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I am 27 years old and i have a young daughter who is 6 years old. I suffered with postnatal depression for a year after her birth and developed bad panic attacks and emetaphobia. I was put on medication and received counselling and made a full recovery by the time my daughter was 3. I started college and started rebuilding my life. I am now in the final year of a nursing degree and i have been with my boyfriend for the past year. When i first met my boyfriend, although he seemed ok, he was out of work and told me of the recent passsing of his dad. As the months passed i tried to be there for him as much as i could. He ...  
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