By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Wednesday, July 4th, 2012
I really like to know how crazy I am. Here is my story. I've been abused all my life. My father was emotional and mentally abusive to my mom and I. I had to watch my dad try to kill my mom a few times. ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, June 20th, 2012
I was raped by my psychiatrist in 1989, I kept it hidden away for 2 decades then on one day in one minute, it crashed in on me. Flashbacks, hallucinations, I just went into a free fall and tried to end it all several ...
By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Monday, May 21st, 2012
I'm not sure what is wrong with me, and I'm too scared to ask my therapist. I need a bit of help. No matter how hard I've looked, I can't find anyone who has the same sort of issues as me. Last year I sort ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, April 18th, 2012
The hallucinations are starting up again. The more stress the more I'm declining. 2 little girls are drawing and playing on my sidewalk outside my door, and I can't stop thinking they're evil. Every little out of place noise makes me jump and my skin ...
By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Hello,
I am not so different from my peers in many ways, but now it feels like I'm an entirely different person on the inside. I came from a middle-class family, got good grades and worked really hard. I was accepted to my dream ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, March 20th, 2012
He and I have been together on and off for 3 years. During this time, he has told me that he sees ghosts, used to be in a cult(the stories are absolutely unbelievable), and that he has another personality. Most of this, I have just ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Now I'm starting to think I'm just crazy: I'm 20 years old and I find myself losing touch with the world more and more each day. All throughout my life I've always known I was different. Growing up, I understood things the other kids ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, February 19th, 2012
I want to take this girl to prom but am afraid of my mom's response. I am a senior in high school who lives with his mother. About 8 years ago after my parents divorced my mom began to change in behavior in terms ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, February 17th, 2012
I think my husband is suffering from a mental disorder or schizophrenia. We have been married for 3 years and have 3children 2 being 8 month old twins. We got into a fight and the first time in 5 years i walked out and lefted. ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, February 14th, 2012
I have recently become concerned with my mental health. I am twenty-one, and I realize that this is an age where people begin to often experience their psychosis, so I need to ask, am I losing it?
As far as my history goes, my father ...
By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, January 31st, 2012
Uhh. I'm 13 and I I will sound crazy, but I'm serious here. You know the phrase 'train of thought'? Well, it needs a track if it's a train. So my whole life there were two tracks of thought, mine & a narrator (stupid things ...
By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, January 26th, 2012
I have lived with depression/social anxiety and selective-mutism for the past 4-5 years. I recently had my sister express her concern for my mental health. She begged me to seek help.
I engage in cutting, overdosing, starvation. I have cut since the age of 14 and ...