My husband and I have been married for 12 years. When we first met we partied and had a good time. I slowed down on my partying our first year of marriage in anticipation of starting a family he did not. After four years of marriage we had our son and then our daughter a year later. I stayed home with our children until they went to school and he worked outside the home. In 2003 my husband and I both starting working for my father. Four years later, we assumed ownership of his business. It is a small business and we have dreams of growing it into something big.

My problem is that he

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My 20 year old son has Tourette Syndrome and ADHD. He has always dealt with depression and since the age of 12 has used pot. Even so, he always had a great love for basketball and being with friends. He had a job by the time he was 15 and always worked hard. He was a happy child most of the time.

During the last year or so, his personality seems to have changed. He no longer feels the need to work or take care of responsibilities. He doesn't seem to care about anyone or anything. He lacks the ambition to do anything at all with his life. He has dark thoughts and seems so negative about everything.

He moved away from

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Q. To start with I haven't left my house in 2 months. I have dealt with my paranoia and mental illness since I was a teen but I think it could be getting much worse. I have alienated all of my friends away with my paranoia as I always think they are laughing or making faces to each other about me and I call them on it. I am obsessed with the idea that everyone thinks I am a man dressed up like a woman and is laughing at me. I am positive this is happening although my husband tells me it is absurd. This drives me crazy and makes me have severe depression and the desire to kill myself. (I have tried because of ...  
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Q. My wife has delusional disorder but believes there is nothing wrong with her even though several doctors have diagnosed her with this disorder. When she is medicated she acts pretty good but unfortunately she manages to somehow not take her meds even with me watching her. If we cannot find a medicine that we can guarantee she is taking we will have to send our children away to live with family or risk losing them to foster care. I have heard that there is a extended release injectible medicine called Depakote used in the treatment of delusional disorder that lasts three or four weeks long. Does anybody know anything about this? She is afraid of needles but has agreed to take a shot as ...  
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Q. The article in the recent newsletter made me think about this issue again. I was in therapy four years ago because of an unexpected meltdown after a freakish accident cost me the vision in my left eye. I got myself to a shrink after a number of episodes of "I just can't get out of bed today." I called in sick to work — a job I love — so many times that semester that I knew I was in real trouble.

I hate therapists, probably because I had several really bad ones (as I only now know) during my stormy teenage years, so I started therapy (again) with great reluctance. Perhaps even outright hostility. Lo and behold, I got to like this guy,

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Q. I am a mother of a 17-months-old and have been married since last year. I am originally from Europe and my husband is in the US Military. Four months ago we moved from Europe here to the States. My husband works and I stay at home.

Shortly before leaving Europe I experienced what I now know were anxiety symptoms. I felt like I couldn't get enough air and my mind was foggy. I was generally scared and apprehensive, and went to see a doctor for my physical symptoms. The doc ran tests which were okay and assumed I was suffering from anxiety. She prescribed Xanax to take as needed to fend of a panic attack. I only once took it. My symptoms disappeared once

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Q. I have been diagnosed with bpd but i cannot agree with this diagnosis. i have researched this extensively and can honestly say that i do not fully meet the criteria for diagnosis. i feel that my psychiatrist has taken my self harm, rather numerous suicide attempts and history of sexual abuse and used this as the sole basis for diagnoses. personally, after much research, i think a diagnoses of schizophrenia would be more appropriate. i, more or less constantly, hear voices and often hallucinate visually as well. delusions can be a big problem. i recently lost a close friend because i was convinced he was in mi5 and plotting to kill me. i used to have a great sense of humour but this enormous ...  
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Q. I think I might have BPD: When I was younger I was neglected by my parents because my father was too busy being a drug addict and an alcoholic and my mother was too busy brushing all my families problems under the carpet to recognize what was happening to all of us. My father eventually ended up leaving, getting sober and starting a completely new life, without me in it. Over the years I've suffered from extreme mood swings, depression, extreme anxiety attacks, and violent rages ending in self mutilation. Also I sleep around and do drugs. I contemplate suicide almost everyday. I get mad over the littlest things and I only see my point of view. Sometimes I will hold grudges for a ...  
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I am dealing with my son who is 13 and i believe he is bipolar. He has over the past 6 months been really angry depressed, saying he wished he was dead and gets in a rage over nothing alot. His father has been diagnosed with bp and personality disorder, depression and has been hospitalized several times. I was married to him for 13 years and we got divorced last Feburary. He was very abusive to me and my son but not our 2 girls. I felt like i finally got away from the anger and mood swings, and abuse. Now all of a sudden I feel like it is starting all over again now with my son.

My

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My wife of 18 years and my daughter who is nearly 15 just had a horrible slap fight that I had to break up. My wife was checking her grades on line and foud that she was failing almost every subject. my daughter is a cheerleader and a freshman. When confronted again about her grades she gave too much attitude and set my wife off. She first hit her with a belt then my daughter tried to hit my wife, it escalated from there and I got in the middle and stopped the maddness.

I just built and we moved into a beautiful new home. I bought my wife a new Jaguar. I bought all new furniture and we have everything that anyone could

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i am 15 and i fear something is wrong with me but my doctor has told me i do not have bipolar but i do have ADHD and insulin resistance.

when i was young my brothers and sisters were extremely mean to me. i was told i was adopted and they even printed out fake adoption papers. they told me they were going to kill me one day. i was told i was a mistake that i should have never been born.

now one moment i am extremly violent with some situations. one is my sister i see her or even hear her voice and i want to just literaly kill her but i wont because i know it is wrong instead i prey on her insuturies

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My mother has been abusing me for about 21 years now. You see, she is always telling that I am worthless, stupid, etc in public and in private. Sometimes, I try to stand up for myself and defend myself but it only makes things worse. I work part-time, and go to school full-time; I don't go out, clean the house, don't have a boyfriend, I graduated top 10% in high school but that is still not good enough. The reason I can't run away is because my dad is sick and I don't want to leave him, and I also have younger siblings. Additionally, I wouldn't be able to survive with what I make and I also have to pay for tuition. I will graduate ...  
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