Archive for April, 2010

How To Stop Fantasizing

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Saturday, April 24th, 2010
I was sexually abused by my older brother (he is 6 years older than me) when I was 6, 10 and 16. I have no other siblings...parents did not provide therapy after these incidences. After the abuse at age 6, I had an imaginary friend. ...

Sexless Marriage

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Saturday, April 24th, 2010
Hi, this is apparently not uncommon, I have been checking the internet and a lot of women have this issue: My husband doesn't want to sleep with me. The reason I am writing is because this has been going on for about a year ...

My Sister Makes Me So Angry

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Friday, April 23rd, 2010
For years i hated my sister so much. there are things she does that i really hate. my family is divorce. My sister and i are with my mother. She had surgery years ago due to stress. I listen to everything my mother says, ...

I Hate My Husband

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
My husband and I have been together for 3 years and married for 1. I think I hate my husband. I'm pretty much been alone the whole time since he is always going on deployment. It is to the point where he and I both ...

Possible To Save Therapeutic Relationship?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, April 22nd, 2010
Is it ever a positive healing experience to return to therapy with a past long term alliance to resolve feelings of complicated grief and obtain closure? Is it not possible that BOTH therapist and client (i am presently still in treatment w/ another therapist after ...

Was This a Flashback?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
It has been about a months time, where things have been going lower and lower and lower in terms of my mood. Soon enough it got to these recent 2 days where I was all of a sudden giggling, then crying, and then ...

Ivy Beleaguered

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
I am a 17-year-old college freshman at an Ivy. I don't know if it is the stress that is making me feel this way, I suspect it's not, but the stress is making it worse. I've always been the youngest, having skipped a grade, so ...

Custody fight for dog

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
I left nursing to go manage my daughter in laws business ( a dog boarding facility) so she could leave and be with her husband, my son, approx 1 1/2 yrs ago. He also has a business 6 hrs away, each of these businesses ...

Psychosis and Schizophrenia

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Hello. I am concerned lately as to the state of my mind in relation to psychosis. I have been diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, however the symptoms I am experiencing fall out of the regular signs associated with this personality disorder. Now, I was told in ...

Can’t buy me love

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Monday, April 19th, 2010
Should I give my girlfriend money? I have been dating this woman for 4 months; she doesn’t have a job and has 2 kids. She is always late paying here bills she is on food stamps but will not look for a job. ...

Depressed: Should I Be Alone?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, April 19th, 2010
I currently own a house with my fiancée, who I have been with for about six and a half years. I have been depressed as long as I can remember. I first went to the doctors about it when I was 16, but it started ...

Is This Infatuation or Love?

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Sunday, April 18th, 2010
To start I am 26, no kids and have been married for 5 years. My husband and I only dated three months before we got married, he asked me to marry him after he had been drinking and presented me with the same ring ...
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