Archive for August, 2010

I’m Only a Teenager, and I Am Bulimic

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Hello. To start, I would like to describe my family. I have two married parents with steady jobs and a younger sister. An outsider would look at my life and label it "perfect." However, from inside the closed doors, we are far from that. ...
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I feel emotionally unsafe…

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
I suppose the issue I am having now, directly relates to issues from my childhood; so I'll start there. My parents separated when I was pretty young, so I grew up in a single parent household. Which, suprisingly, is not the problem. My mother has OCD ...
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Unexplained attitude of my granddaughter

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Monday, August 30th, 2010
I have been a mother for my daughter's first born girl who she had abandoned for 17 years under various excuses. The father of my grand daughter also had left the country and no one knew where he was all these years. It has ...
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Obsessive Jealousy of Sister-In-Law

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, August 30th, 2010
I am a good-looking and intelligent young woman. I have a jealousy problem that is becoming obsessive. My sister in law (I'm not married but I am in a 3year relationship with my boyfriend) is two years younger than me, 10cm taller than me, a ...
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Has my boyfriend lost attraction for me?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Sunday, August 29th, 2010
Well, I'm 21 and have been with my boyfriend for 6 years. We have a 3 year old son and another baby on the way.. My concern is that he has lost attraction for me, or worse, just isn't the faithful type. Earlier on in ...
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Can I Force My Father To Seek Help?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, August 29th, 2010
My father seems to be suffering from some mental illness that effects my whole family. As a kid (about 4-7 years old, as early as I can remember) he's been this way. He would hurt my mom, my brother, sister, and I. My mother divorced ...
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Confusion about who I am

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Saturday, August 28th, 2010
To be honest, I'm not entirely sure what my problem is. I will start with a short background (side comment, as I sit here, I keep getting bursts of "this is ridiculous, I don't have a real problem" popping into my head.) In ...
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Overanalyzing controls my life!

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Saturday, August 28th, 2010
I tend to overanalyze simple things, and I can't seem to take things at face value. I always feel that there is a deeper meaning to anything that is said, and I rack my brain until I figure out what the deeper meaning may ...
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My sister’s ex and dad of her kids committed suicide

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Friday, August 27th, 2010
I have a younger sister in need of some desperate advice. She is a 31 yr old mother of a 7 yr old daughter & a 3 yr old son. She has been raising the kids alone for the past 3 years. The father wasn't ...
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Anger manifesting as criticism

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Friday, August 27th, 2010
I am 34 years old and a new mother of a 7 month old son. I grew up with two sisters and an angry father. In fact, my parents are recently divorced after a 35 year lackluster marriage, due to my father's hidden gambling ...
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Wife can’t get along with my parents

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Thursday, August 26th, 2010
I just got married in June. Before we got married my wife had troubles at home, she'd get into arguments and fits/fights with her parents sometimes. We all thought, including her parents that it was an issue that may be caused by her family. After ...
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Anger and harming oneself

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Thursday, August 26th, 2010
My boyfriend and I have been together for 9 months. Before him, I have been in a abusive relationship and was also cheated on. My current boyfriend and I are perfectly wonderful, but at times we argue like normal couples do, the only difference ...
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