Author Archive for Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW

I Want Help — But I Don’t

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, April 15th, 2012
My now 22-year-old brother was diagnosed with Bipolar, Aspergers, ADD and OCD when I was 12. He’s always been verbally abusive and sometimes violent to me and my 19-year-old brother. He’s never seriously hurt us and he’s been medicated for years, but I’m still ...
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Tired of Trying to Fix My Life

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Saturday, April 14th, 2012
I feel like my life is falling into pieces and scattering into all different directions, and as I try to pick up all the pieces I lose some more. I miss my father who died of lung cancer when I was 10. I miss my mom ...
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OCD vs. Phobia Problem?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, April 13th, 2012
Hello, please help! I am a 48 year old male, married with kids. I have always had some degree of anxiety (a worrier), usually very minor but with all the stressors I've endured lately (double job loss, part time business failure), I believe it ...
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Night-time Anxiety

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, April 12th, 2012
Hello, Ok I'm 19 and I have a 5 month old baby girl. I’m also married unemployed and living in my own apartment with my husband. I am constantly scared. It happens at night. I dread the minute my husband wants to go to bed. ...
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Trust, Jealousy & Abandonment

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, April 11th, 2012
I have been in a relationship for a little over a year and every time I open up my heart and fall in love I find that I become insanely jealous of other single women that my boyfriend engages with. As background, my father cheated ...
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Boyfriend Cheated

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, April 10th, 2012
My boyfriend and I have been dating for 8 months. He had a very rough childhood/teenage years including abuse, sex, drugs, alcohol. He was diagnosed with manic depression and schizophrenia at a young age and went through therapy and tried many different drugs. He is ...
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Possible to Have Both PTSD and Bipolar Disorder?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, April 9th, 2012
I just recently got out of the military and i was diagnosed with ptsd after going to some behavioral sessions my last session the Dr. out of left field said i had bi polar symptoms and tried to say i was bi polar i was ...
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Fearing Schizophrenia After Smoking Marijuana

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, April 8th, 2012
Scary symptoms i need to know whats wrong with me i fear Schizophrenia...I smoked very strong Marijuana (hydro) at the start of the semester (2 months ago.) i had only smoked milder forms before that and not very much or often. I apparently had way too ...
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Too Anxious to Get Help for My Anxiety

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, April 6th, 2012
I don't know what to do. I'm so anxious and depressed I can't even function. I'm able to hold my job, but that's about it. I'm trying to patch things up with my best friend, who's a sister to me, because I've ...
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Depressed at 11?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, April 5th, 2012
My life *was* okay ok guess. But I'm so sad. I feel worthless, I have lost all intrest in everything, I'm eating less,tired constantly and have given up. I feel so low I even thought about talking my own life...and I tried to i ...
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Dating an Older Co-worker

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012
He is a janitor that is 13 years older than I am. We had sex and now I am paranoid about him telling other people at work about our most intimate moments. I often think that everyone is talking about us, even though ...
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Little Control Over Thoughts

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, April 2nd, 2012
I can't tell what I have. I feel frustrated sometimes because I have little control over my thoughts. I will often get very stressed out because of some horrible thing I think, like saying bad things about people in my mind. I never mean ...
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