Therapy Articles

How to Find Help?

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Sunday, May 12th, 2013
I know something is wrong with me, I know I need help but I don't know where to start. Do I call my family doctor to get a referral for somewhere? Do I call a therapist directly? What do I do? A. Your question about where ...
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Am I Difficult to Love or Like?

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Sunday, May 12th, 2013
I was diagnosed Bipolar II in 2007. My family and friends have had a hard time accepting this and most of my friends stopped talking to me and said I was faking it for attention and my mother told a family member that I ...
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Worsening Depression

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Saturday, May 11th, 2013
I'm 36. I can't seem to get over my depression. It gets worse every time and I don't know what to do. A: You must be feeling desperate. You didn't give me much to go on but I'll try. If you are only taking ...
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Difficult-to-Handle 6-Year-Old

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Friday, May 10th, 2013
My 6-year-old daughter has become so contrary! Every answer to every question, (when there is an answer) is negative. She has huge tantrums at school when she feels she has been slighted in any way and becomes violent when reprimanded. She has ...
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Alone, Aggravated and Sad

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
I was diagnosed with depression in December of last year. Its started to get worse after my mission trip from Nicaragua. Ever since I came back, I get aggravated easily, my roommate and my best friend don't ever invite me to things and never seem ...
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I Imagine Killing People

By Kristina Randle, Ph.D., LCSW on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
I fantasize about killing people in extreme detail. My most recent "fantasy" (I don't prefer saying fantasize because I feel that people assume I like it.) was of me going to school with a gun and a camera and I would go to my home ...
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Asperger’s?

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Tuesday, May 7th, 2013
I have always felt different than everyone else. I had never had real friends or anything besides my family (that is, my dad, my brother, and my mom); it's not that I am myself with them; it's more like they accept me with all of ...
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Repressed Memory of Rape

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Friday, May 3rd, 2013
I have come to the realization that I was raped at 12 or 13. Didn't know up until about a year ago. I have been given a diagnosis of major depressive and borderline personality disorder. It affected the way I treated children, who are now ...
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Ways to Help Depressed Boyfriend

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Hi, I've been with my boyfriend for a few months now and he has always had a problem with depression but at first I did think it was just his life as he almost died last year and his dad is ill and his mom ...
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Criminal Past

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
I started a criminal life early, spending most of my 20's behind bars. I never learned how to be somebody or even be in a relationship sober or that did not feel like a hostage situation. Years later(present), I came across an acquaintance of mine ...
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Adopted Daughter May Have Reactive Attachment Disorder

By Dr. Marie Hartwell-Walker on Tuesday, April 30th, 2013
My 8 year old adopted daughter has had 4 different therapists including neurotherapy. She has yet to have someone really diagnose or help us with exactly her problems. She was adopted at 2 years old and spent the first 2 years of her life ...
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Always Crying

By Daniel J. Tomasulo, PhD, TEP, MFA, MAPP on Sunday, April 28th, 2013
I feel like crying all the time and I’m not able to concentrate on any task or talk to someone. My sister got divorced after a 2 year marriage and it has been 2 years and still she is not able to recover from the trauma. ...
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