Psychosis Articles

How to Help My Paranoid Sister?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, March 24th, 2013
My sister is a married 42 year old mother of 2 girls. All of her life is has been a bit paranoid. A few years ago, she began taking drugs and drinking. When she got a full time jib, things seemed to return to normal. ...
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Scared of Myself

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, March 17th, 2013
For about two years I have sort of thought that people can hear the thoughts in my head and recently I also feel like God, Jesus, demons and the devil talk to me in my head and I talk with them. I have started to ...
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How to Handle Mentally Ill Relatives?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, March 3rd, 2013
I married into my husband's family who is relatively closed about mental illness. I now know his two sisters (both over 45) have schizophrenia. My mother in law is 76 and keeps them home. One daughter can sometimes be violent and the other daughter constantly ...
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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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