Psychosis Articles

Is Hypnotherapy Useful?

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, February 26th, 2013
Though I’ve been married for 32 years and have two grown children, I am terrified of sex. Four years ago I finally confessed to my husband about these feelings and started seeing a psychotherapist who is certain that I was sexually abused as a child ...
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Could This Be Schizophrenia?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, February 24th, 2013
I have been experiencing most of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia, except for depression, but I appear depressed to other people. I have some positive symptoms as well, like paranoia (which I've had for years) and acute senses. I'm more sensitive to noises, and on ...
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Should I Disclose Depression?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
When I was 21 years old I started having visions and hearing things that others did not. I thought and still do think, I am special because of it. However, I started to feel like I did not want to be special any more. I ...
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Reason to Believe I Have Dissociative Identity Disorder

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Thursday, February 14th, 2013
Not only did a psychiatrist tell me that he believes that I have multiple personality disorder but a lot of my past experiences and my symptoms add up. My mom thinks I'm Crazy to think I have this but she doesn't really know. When I ...
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Mental Health Scare

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Saturday, February 9th, 2013
Over the past year I have developed some unusual ways of thinking and behavior that I have no idea how to handle. I have become more and more socially withdrawn. I never leave my house, and rarely get out of bed. My fiance has been ...
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Dissociative Identity Disorder?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, February 4th, 2013
Since I was young I've had major social problems, Insomnia, time lapses of 2 hours or more, out of body experiences and other like minded things. Within the last six years I've had four major psychotic episodes witnessed by friends that stated I was not ...
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I Am Dreaming The Future

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, February 4th, 2013
About a year or two ago, I started to perceive what I thought to be speculation on my part as to what the future would hold in my dreams. Like conversations that I would have with my friends. But then they started to happen. I ...
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Do I Have Mental Illness Too?

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Monday, February 4th, 2013
I have a few family members with mental illnesses such as narcissistic personality disorder, bipolar, alcoholism, and arrested development and siblings with autism. I am not sure if I have a mental illness since I am only a teen and life is just starting out ...
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Hearing Voices and Losing Focus

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, February 3rd, 2013
I can't function when this happens. I recently failed out of college, and ever since, I am not sure I am okay. I keep "checking out", as in I suddenly will lose my ability to focus on anything, my brain gets very foggy/tired, and I ...
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Waste of Time to See a Psychiatrist?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, January 28th, 2013
I am going to see a psychiatrist on the 22nd of Jan: Well I am just wondering what you think, I have been denying I have had any mental illness for some time, but my girlfriend of eight years and her mother have stated my ...
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Random Thoughts Cause Concern

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Monday, January 21st, 2013
I've been diagnosed with purely O OCD last month but I don't know if my thoughts are obsessions or already delusions. I don't know if I'm losing my grip on reality but just a good few hours ago, a random thought popped into my head: ...
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Coldness

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Friday, January 18th, 2013
I have been suffering of something now in 3 months, sometimes when I wake up, I feel love, I feel the hear and the warmth in my heart and soul, but for the last few months, it dissaepears, I get cold, no feelings! Everything is ...
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