Archive for September, 2010

Early Signs of Schizophrenia?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, September 24th, 2010
For over five months now, I have been extremely socially withdrawn, have had obsessive thoughts of suicide, and delusions of how the world works. Let me expand on that statement. My thoughts of suicide sound like me, but they are very persistent. They tell me ...
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Is it wrong for dating single parents to show affection in front of kids?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
I'm 49 years of age, and I met this wonderful woman who is 38. We both have children, girls, mine is 12, hers is 7. Now, the girl I'm dating explained to me that she was traumatized by finding her mom and dad as ...
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Hold Off School Until Life Is Settled?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, September 23rd, 2010
In the last two years, I lost my home of 11 years to fire and my 11 year relationship ended. I have moved 4 times and ended up in another state in a new relationship. I just purchased a decent inexpensive condo so I could ...
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Intense social phobia

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
I have always had friends perhaps not many but I always had a few good friends. I have always been socially awkward and had to 'role play' and pretend to be someone else in order to get by in social situations. I can pinpoint ...
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My Best Friend Thinks I’m Schizophrenic

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
I'm in therapy and have been diagnosed with depression and I'm currently taking Prozac, which seems to be working, despite giving me a terrible tremor. I've had some problems with my best friend lately because he thinks that some ideas I've been having are signs ...
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Is My Male Friend Emotionally Abusive?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
I am a woman in my late thirties and I met a younger guy, 24 years old at the time on the internet, randomly, who turns out to be local to me. Actually we really first met at a taco place where he used to ...
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Need Help: Hallucinating

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
Quite recently (within the past 24 hours) I have started hallucinating. I'm hearing voices, well, more like conversations. Conversations that I've had in the past with other people, it hasn't stopped. I was worried that this might be something rather serious. What do you think ...
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Boyfriend doesn’t seem to care anymore

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Monday, September 20th, 2010
Ok, I have been with my boyfriend for almost two years. He is the best thing that has happened to my daughters and me in a long time. When we first got together, we were very intimate, and close. Around 5 months of being together, ...
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Where To Get Help?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, September 20th, 2010
I'm 46 yrs old . I have no job, no family, except my 3 kids, no health insuance, no friends, I realized that I have been screwed-up in the head for a very long time, because of abuse physical and emotional abuse that I received ...
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Why do I feel this way?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Sunday, September 19th, 2010
upset. Im 15 with great family and friends. They are all very supportive and I was very happy. But for about a year now I haven't felt the same. I don't know what happened. Nothing has changed except me. I don't have the same ...
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Commitment problems

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA on Sunday, September 19th, 2010
I have been dating my wonderful girlfriend fro two years. We have been living together for over one year. She is 29 years old. She is under a lot of pressure from family and society (here in China) to marry. Plus, we love each other ...
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Homosexual dreams

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Saturday, September 18th, 2010
I have had 2 homosexual dreams but i am only aroused by women. Gay thought keep coming to mind, but i hate8 it. What's wrong with me? I just woke up from a 2nd gay dream. In Dream 1, a man tried to have sex ...
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