Archive for August, 2009

Subconsciously Making Decisions that Hurt My Wife

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Friday, August 21st, 2009
I have been married for 13 years. I have two young children. Over the last three years I have noticed a change in my wife's attitude towards me. She moved out of our bedroom and into the guest room. She was having difficulty sleeping, however ...

Stalking After Six Years?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, August 20th, 2009
I broke up with someone 6 years ago. After we broke up, he become so angry that I told him over the phone that I would not allow him to speak to me this way, and that I was going to hang up ...

Girlfriend and I going to separate colleges

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Me and my girlfriend have been dating for about five months now, and I really think that I'm in love with her. However, about three months back I received an acceptance letter from a very prestigious private college saying that I have received a substantial ...

Recurrence of panic and depression I had when I was in college

By Diana L. Walcutt, Ph.D. on Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
I started a new job, which is requiring relocation to the NYC area (where I am originally from).  It is a two-year assignment, after which I will retire. Once I started doing the new job (have not moved yet), I began having the same symptoms I ...

Possible Anxiety, OCD and Eating Disorder?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, August 17th, 2009
I've always been dissatisfied with my weight. For most of my life my aunts and sometimes mom would criticize me for my weight. When I was in junior high, I would often fast or only eat one meal a day. Also, for a month I ...

Addiction is the affair in their relationship

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Sunday, August 16th, 2009
im 38 and just released from prison. going to prison was a blessing as it gave me time to get clean from drugs.it also gave me a chance to look closer at my life.and i also reaffirmed my love and following of christ. i guess ...

Why So Much Trouble Finding Therapist for DID?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Saturday, August 15th, 2009
Why am I having such a hard time finding a therapist for DID? I have psychiatrists here who haven't even talked to us start writing scripts for schizophrenia even though the only ones I hear are my alters. We have gotten to the ...

Worried About Schizophrenia/Schizoaffective disorder

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Saturday, August 15th, 2009
I'm sorry if this sounds repetitive of past posts but I've been looking everywhere to ask/talk about this. I'm also sorry if this is too long, I'm going to try to keep it as short as possible, yet informative. I can't even tell you how long ...

Anxiety or Something Else?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, August 14th, 2009
Take a deep breath… hope I don’t bore you.. here is my story.. Bloated feeling, pressure in chest, feeling like I can’t talk or swallow, shaking, feeling of blood rushing to head, dizzy, tingling pins and needles in extremities, heart racing, frequent bowel movements, wake up ...

I don’t know what to do

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Friday, August 14th, 2009
I'm 14 and I've been going out with my boyfriend for a about a year know. It's been good..but my sister found out we're together.Well she pretty much just put the pieces together..we were talking on the phone at like 4 in the morning..shes met ...

Something is wrong with me

By Diana L. Walcutt, Ph.D. on Thursday, August 13th, 2009
For years now, it seems like the same thing has been happening. At random times, mostley at night, I will find myself in a panic. I lock myself in the bathroom and hysterically cry at almost anything. When this happens, I feel as if I ...

Eating Disorder Has Returned

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
I am falling back into the depths of my eating disorder and I can't tell anyone. I have suffered with an eating disorder since I was 13 (I am 18 now). It started out as bulimia/binge eating. I would binge and sometimes purge. I was ...
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