Archive for January, 2010

She can’t adjust to a move

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Saturday, January 30th, 2010
From India: Hello. I'll try describing my problem as well as I can. Three years ago, I moved to another city and I'm still struggling to adjust. I'm depressed, close to tears and suicidal most of the time or I'm irritated, hostile and ...
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Compulsive Lying and I Can’t Stop

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Saturday, January 30th, 2010
I have been diagnosed with depression but, lately I have come to realize I have many more problems, that I didn't even realize till the other day..I am a compulsive liar. I will lie about anything, even simple things for no reason. Sometimes I won't ...
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Panty Wearing Among Males

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, January 29th, 2010
Before I got married I use to wear men's bikini underwear( regular and string)For almost two years I have been secretly putting on and wearing woman's panties. At first I was trying on and wearing my 18 year old step daughters panties in which she ...
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My mother won’t speak to me anymore

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Friday, January 29th, 2010
I'm still friends w/my ex, who tends to get into alot of trouble. I've made the mistake in the past of helping him out, so my mother always has this fear that I'll do it again, which i understand. Last week he got ...
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Am I Dealing with a Ghost?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, January 28th, 2010
Please I need to understand whats wrong with me. I would be shocked if I got a reply to this. One could only hope so much. I want to understand what's wrong with me. I talk to this person in my head it's weird ...
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Unhappy to be employed again

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Thursday, January 28th, 2010
i now have a job after 3 months of being unemployed. i should be happy, right? But I'm not. In fact, i'm mad. I'm so mad I've been crying for hours. A few days ago, I talked to someone and ...
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Can I change who I am?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
For so long I've really felt like I couldn't define myself, and it contributed to depersonalization and other problems. Now looking at it I see it's not that i can't define myself, it's that my definition of myself is the opposite of what i want ...
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Life Is Too Much

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
I'm going to start from the beginning (I'll give the short version)My parents were never married. I lived in lower middle class environment. My father married another woman had three kids with her and they lived quite well. He always provided and took really good ...
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Traumatic Childhood Affecting Me Physically?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Over the last year I have been having counselling , I have had a pretty crappy life as I had a traumatic childhood, I was bullied by my family. The counselling has been helping although it has brought things up that I didn't relise happened ...
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fears about medications

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, January 26th, 2010
Hello. I am in my mid 30's. I have been pretty active and creative my whole life despite having mild periods of depression since I was a child. (I did not identify it then and my parents never encouraged me to discuss my own feelings). ...
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I don’t know how to get out of this depression

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010
I am 41, married with children, have a part time job, and am going to school online. My problem is, I am depressed, and I have NO friends. I have many aquaintances, but no friends. I don't know how to get out of this ...
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I feel like I am losing my mind

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Friday, January 22nd, 2010
Ever since i can remember I have always been an angry person. I snap at my mom for stupid things(to the point where i'm screaming at her for nothing, and i know its wrong when im doing it but i do it anyways)and i ...
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