Archive for May, 2008

My mom is stealing and abusing drugs

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Q: For the past 2 years I have been aware that my mom is taking drugs from her hospital where she works and using them at home. Her behavior started changing after the death of a few family elders, when I asked her ...
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Eating disorder in the making

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Q: I have been in counseling for almost two years in regards to issues that have nothing to do with body image, etc. Over the years we've discovered that due to havin a lack of control in so many aspects of my life (in ...
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Traumatized and unhappy

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Monday, May 26th, 2008
Q:country unknown: I am a very well educated person.Unfortunately suffered abuse when I was 12. My mother never beleived me and my dad was abroad.I finally hit my uncle and created a fuss . It stopped. As I went along my life I struggled to ...
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why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Monday, May 26th, 2008
Q: From California: My boyfriend and I are both divorced. Both of us have been divorced for many years. He is 51 and I am 43. We have been living together blissfully for almost 3 years and we are very committed to each ...
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Time to leave?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Monday, May 26th, 2008
Q: I'm a 35 year old married woman with three young boys. My husband and I have been together for 17 years — married for the past ten of those years. I've been really struggling with our relationship, my happiness, and the quality ...
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Is Something Wrong?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, May 26th, 2008
Q. I lived with my mum up to the time she died. It was me and mum, I was 35. We left my dad when I was 17 he was abusive. Since mums death I run away to France from uk never spoke to ...
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Mother’s Mania and Med Refusal. Help.

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, May 26th, 2008
Q. My Mum was diagnosed as bi polar in 1988. She had severe highs and lows involving suicide attempts and when high over spending and running away with strange men. For the past 11 years she was fine until a GP advised her to come ...
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How Can I Help My Depressed Friend?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, May 26th, 2008
Q. My friend is depressed, how can I help her? My friend has been a bit depressed since I know her, but lately it's become worse. She's convinced that she is dumb, ugly, fat, she has no talent etc. She says she wants to die ...
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Help Needed With Brain Injury

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, May 26th, 2008
Q. 13 Months ago I suffered a fall of 7-8 feet and was diagnosed months later as having a diffuse axonal injury. It was a work related injury and I also had rotator cuff repair. I have been having multiple neuro problems and just ...
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Boyfriend with DID

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, May 26th, 2008
Q. This is the problem. I have been told by my boyfriend so many things I can't keep track of them. First he said he was in the occult then he said he was into this and into that and when I ask him about ...
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Can I Just Be happy?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, May 26th, 2008
Q. I was once very heavy into drugs with my mother about two years ago until she passed away from a drug overdose and ever since then I feel like a huge failure to her and that it is my fault that she died, ...
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Am I being unfair?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Saturday, May 24th, 2008
Q: From the U.S: I was dating a guy for almost a year when i got pregnant, we had a very fun relationship but I was really the support system, financially and emotionally. When i got pregnant he wanted me to abort and i said ...
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