Archive for February, 2008

How do I stop Cutting?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
how do i stop cutting? i have been doing it for 4 years now. some people tell me i just do it for attention. i do it because im always angry. i have tried some other techniques but nothing works. what can i do? A: ...
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How do I cope with degrading family members?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
I'm in grade 10 now and I have to deal with my mother and sister daily. They constantly talk behind my back. I can hear it and I get really angry and sad about it. It's mostly about my career choice. I want to go ...
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When we fight, I stop caring.

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
I stop caring about my wife for no apparent reason. When my wife and I get into fights I get to a point that I just become so tired of dealing with the situation that something in me changes and I just stop caring about ...
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Victim or victimizer?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
From the Middle East: My 5, 4, 2, year olds have told me that their 10 year old cousin touchs and scraches their private areas. Her parents say it's normal and the child's grandfather is a child sycirotrist and that's what he said. ...
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My husband won’t put our family first.

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Friday, February 22nd, 2008
I feel I am at the end of the line. My husaband and I have been married for 5 years. He has a huge family and a mother who is treated like the queen bee. Some of the siblings have failure to launch due ...
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My parents always put me in the middle.

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Friday, February 22nd, 2008
From an American teen: My parents haven't gotten along in years. They always put me right in the middle of their arguments and then blame the other for putting me in the middle. One week, my mom kept telling me all morning about how bad ...
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Is hearing voices OCD?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Hi. I have had OCD for a number of years, i got help for it, it went away for a while and now it has come back again. I hear a voice telling me that if i don't do a particular ritual, i will die ...
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How Can Someone Change Their Feeling About Someone So Fast?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Q. I dated a divorced man for almost a year who had 3 kids. When I met him he told me he would get his vasectomy reversed if he met a woman he married who wanted to have kids. We always got along and never ...
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How Can I Stop Fixating and Fantasizing?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Q. Im single and have been lonely my entire life, almost dependent on finding a relationship that has never happened. It is an understatement to say that i'm desperate. About 2 years ago, i met this guy at summer studies, and we happened to ...
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How Can I Overcome What My Friend Did to Me?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Q. Well its hard to know where to start. Its been well over a year and a half when a special friendship to me ended. We'd met at school and she was amazing, i looked up to her and we just gelled instantly with our ...
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Do You Know of Any Over-the-Counter Antidepressants?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Q. When I was 13 years old I was prescribed paxil to help with my depression over the lost of my father. When I was 20 I was prescribed Zoloft for depression after having my son. I am a cutter and have actually not ...
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What Can I Do to Help My Very Angry Grandmother?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Q. I have a grandmother who gets very angry and goes into rages, i want to know if this is old age or if there may be something more serious going on. She is 90 years old and has been living with my mother for ...
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