Archive for June, 2008

Schizophrenia or Negative Cosmic Forces?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, June 30th, 2008
Q. From Southeast Asia: Hi! I would like to share my personal experience about this incurable disease and ask your opinion whether it is SCHIZOPHRENIA, or something caused by wicked negative forces known to man as evil. I came from a family of professionals ...
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Suicidal Thinking and Experimentation

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, June 30th, 2008
Q. Recently I was given a BDI that showed I was severely depressed. I was put back on medication: 20mg lexapro, 60 mg buspirone, .5mg clonazapam, and 100mg seroquel (to help me sleep). It's been a few weeks now of this and I've gone from ...
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Are My Stomach Problems Due to Anxiety?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, June 30th, 2008
Q. Roughly a year ago I had an incident at a restaurant where I became physically ill after eating. I had had this problem years ago but always figured it was the food. Now I'm not so sure. I have come to a point ...
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How Can I Quit Drinking?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, June 30th, 2008
Q. For a few months now I've been considering quitting drinking. The view I'm looking at it from is that quitting can make me a healthier and happier person in the long run. Are there certain techniques or some sort of outline people use ...
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Boyfriend Needs Help But Refuses to Get it

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, June 30th, 2008
Q. I have lived with my boyfriend for just about three years now. I love him very much, maybe a little too much. ok, here's the problem: He knows that he has mental health issues, but refuses help and/or treatment. I dont know what ...
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Asking big, big questions

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Q: From a Florida teen: (This is a much-edited post.) Hey there, A couple years ago (sometime around the summer tenth or eleventh grade) I began see an advantage to an atheist life. I've never pegged myself to be a guy with mental problems-but ...
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She says she’s pregnant

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Q: From an American guy: I made friends with a young lady almost two years ago, we became close, I disclosed alot of personal and private information to her, she started having sex, my wife caught onto what was going on, Ive tried to end ...
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Can I make him stop smoking?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Sunday, June 29th, 2008
From an 18 year old in Poland: My last boyfriend left me over a year ago. Since then there was no one I ever liked. And now I've found someone I think I could be with. When I saw him for the first time I ...
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Why do I Want to Make Out So Bad?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Sunday, June 29th, 2008
Q from an American teen: I've shamefully become jealous of couples engaging in making out publicly. I'm an 18 year old, single, never had a girlfriend (that wasn't online/completely unseeable, hundreds of miles away and untouchable), never been kissed guy. One side of me says ...
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Is it her or is it me?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Q: From American South: My wife and I have just separated. I've been sure that she was unfaithful to me, but she says no. I worry about her faithfulness, her relationship with our teenage son (too close to him), and that she has a ...
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My husband needs his space.

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Q from Canada: I am married for 7 years. They have been good 7 years with the expected ups and downs but nothing that was ever such an issue. The only problem i know my husband had with me was that of "space". He always ...
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What’s wrong with me?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Q: I am not sure what's wrong with me. I feel like I'm not able to cope with things...I am easily angered, lose my patience and "snap" at my husband and kids often. I have mood swings that are uncontrollable. At the time of my ...
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