I have been married to a woman for thirty two years and I have been persevering with what I consider to be some very serious problems. She has a very unusual lack of and often times a total absence of empathy, sympathy and understanding for even her friends and those closest to her including myself. She is a fair weather friend. She's your buddy until you need her help and she stands her friends up without so much as a phone call. I have seen two friends of hers at different times become temporarily bed ridden and ask for her aid at which time she completely abandoned them and never saw them again. I was ill for 9 mo's and unable to work, ...  
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From the UK: I suffer from depression and borderline personality disorder. Ifound out recently that my nan is dying and may not last another day. Usually when I am scared or stressed I would self harm, but in this case even that seems worthless. I'm having unfamiliar feelings that I don't know how to deal with and I know I'll end up making things harder for the rest of the family. I'm terrified and don't know how I'll cope. A: I wish I knew more about where to get help in the UK. Here's an excerpt from a website I found on the web:

"Bristol Crisis Service for Women is a national voluntary organisation that supports women in emotional distress.

We particularly help women who harm

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My wife and her 9 siblings (from 5 different fathers) have tried so hard (for as long as I have known them all - 12 years) to get the love of their mother. The mother seems to be all about her. Which ever son/daughter buys her the "most" expensive things seem to be the son/daughter who gets the most attention from her at that time. She basically ignores or is not interested in any others at that time. She often lies or is deceiptful to her children. For instance, she recently was out of town visiting her own mother. She called all her adult kids and cried about how she needed money for different things, etc. etc. ...  
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Q: My husband was abandoned by his mother as a small child. When he meets women he acts so sweet and wants kids so much but as time goes on he gets controlling and tells so many lies. When the women leave him he tells lies and begs for them to come back and when that does not work then he starts destroying his own property and makes false reports to the police and false reports to children services. He is very obsessive with women. When he finally realizes he can not get the women back he signs his rights away from the children. He does not listen to any rules by the cops or judges. He has a very bad temper. Could he ...  
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Q: I'm not sure if I even have a disorder. But lately I have been thinking that's what this is. I tried to look my problem up earlier but I couldn't find anything like it, except for the multiple personality disorder. I think it's similar to a multiple personality disorder, but yet I feel that it's different. I know how there are some people that will say they have another personality. I don't really know how to describe it but my best way is that for example someone named Tom would have this disorder, and so the next day he would be "Bob." I don't know if I have that. So I'm going to try to describe what ...  
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Q: Mine has been a inter-religion marriage.There have been incidents with my family and hers which have left a very bad taste.My realtionship has soured with my wife over these issues.Things like " why did you mum insult me and my folks?". Abuse and swear words follow and I guess its just normal for me not to hear abuse and disrespect towards my parents.I have asked her many a times to forget the past and live fresh but she is adamant.She tries to get these issues up every now and then and forces me to speak to her folks which i dont like cos of her attitude towards my parents.Words like " you are not a good husband a good son -in-law " have hurt ...  
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Q: Over the past year or two, I have been experiencing a lot of symptoms indicative of borderline personality disorder, such as severe mood swings, dependency, separation anxiety, unstable self-image, and self-mutilation. I wondered what I should do. Should I seek help from a local psychologist/psychiatrist? I just want the chaos to stop. Many of the symptoms that you have listed are included in the criteria for Borderline Personality Disorder. However, given your age of 19 there could be other factors leading to these symptoms, such as hormonal changes, moving away from home to go to college, any kind of trauma history, etc. I do suggest being evaluated by a mental health professional and you may also benefit from a thorough medical evaluation. ...  
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Q. Hello, I first met my partner 10 months ago, before i had become close with her she seemed to be your regular happy 20 year old. Once I had become close with her, she told me her problems and how she is always depressed and all the other jazz. She used to find succh comfort in being able to discuss these things with me, and I liked being there for her. At the early stage of our relationship she was suicidal, and was often very violent, towards herself and me. (the violance was not bad towards me, she used to just cry and punch me in the chest while i stopped her from banging her head etc.) One night i called an ambulance ...  
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Q: I am confused on what disorder i actuall have. I suffer from symptems of a number of them. I need help narrowing it down. I was told as a child that I am bipolar disorder. But in a recent conversation with my boy-friend about it, I got a lil' curious. I looked it up and of course it lead me to other disorders. And the more i read on these the more it seemed to me that i suffer from a number of different ones. I am not sure which one I could have. I have signs for bipolar, depression, ocd, and mood disorder. I have realized there is a connection between them. but is it possible for some one to suffer from all ...  
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Q. I have a sister that is in her thirties and I think she has a mental disorder. She is a paranoyed person. Things that to me is stupid she worries about. For example we were doing remodilng in our home and we were working on the bathroom and we took the bathroom door off and she came to my house and had to use the bathroom. It was just her and I there and she had to use the bathroom. She went through and shut all of my bedroom doors and checked to make sure that no one was in the house because she was afraid that someone would see her in the bathroom. She is also a depressed person and real hard to ...  
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Q. Ok here’s the deal. I'm pretty sure I have OCD after reading a lot of articles about it, I feel i do have the disorder. I think I even know when it severely started. My compulsions are hand washing and it started one day when I got urine on my wrist and therefore, I kept feeling that it spread all the way up to my armpits so I would constantly wash it aimlessly. I would put soap and not wash it off even though knowing that soap does not "kill" germs exactly. I've reduced it back to handwashing again and I don't take as long to wash my hands now. I still take excessively long showers yet I have reduced it from two hours ...  
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Q. I find this very difficult but I'd like to tell of the root of my problem. It basically boils down to sex... When I was young, my father showed me pornography, I was only 6 or so and it didn't mean much to me, a couple of years later it was found out that he had molested my sister... Anyway, he is now a reformed alcoholic and he an my mother are back together, he is open about the past and knows that if we have questions he must answer them. Nothing happened to me, I hope... Anyway, I had a 'normal' school life with some good friends and one in particular, who has sadly passed away. Anyway, At high school, the ...  
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