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Come on in and make yourself at home! You can compare types of counselling and psychotherapy, take self-tests and quizzes, identify symptoms, look up medications, or learn about secure online therapy. You can also ask our consulting psychologist a question, or read hundreds of questions that other readers have asked. Just choose a section from the tabs at the top of the page to get started.

Ask the Psychologist!

  • Why Did My Father Abuse Me?
    Thu, 28 Aug 2008 Q: When I was 10 years old my father started fondling me and used to ask me to do the same for him. He did this for 2 years, after which I told my mother. I don’t rememebr why I did not originally tell my mother, but my father told me that my mom would [...]
  • I Get Feelings Something Bad Will Happen to My Children
    Thu, 28 Aug 2008 Q: I get these “feelings” that something bad is going to happen to my children. I went through years of infertility treatments and was told that I may never have children. I did, by some miracle, become pregnant and had my daughter. I was shocked when I discovered I was pregnant again with my son [...]
  • Depression and Anxiety Medications Helped for Four Years But Then Stopped Working
    Wed, 27 Aug 2008 Q: I’ve been suffering from anxiety and depression since 1993. It has costs me many jobs in my career and I just lost another one last week. I don’t know what to do. Since 2002 to present I have been taking Paxil and Klonopin. They seemed to work fine until 2006, but since then nothing [...]
  • Sister-in-Law Trying To Take My Place in the Family?
    Wed, 27 Aug 2008 Q: My brother was dating a girl for about a year whom we all liked. At the one year mark, when it wasn’t certain where their relationship was going, or if he was being deployed to Iraq — he ended up being discharged and not going — she announced she was pregnant. My family immediately [...]
  • Homesickness Even When I’m At Home
    Tue, 26 Aug 2008 Q: Ever since I was a kid I’ve had the feeling of homesickness even though I was home. It just came over me that “I want to go home”. I always explained that to myself that since my parents were divorced I wanted to see the parent I wasn’t with at the time. I still [...]
  • Ex-Wife Supports Current Wife in Divorce
    Tue, 26 Aug 2008 Q: I have been married to my wife for 7 years. It is my second marriage. The events of both are strikingly similar in that both wives cannot in any way take any kind of responsibility for what has happened. Both became very child like (at least I see this now) and both are emotionally [...]
  • I Feel Like Having An Affair
    Mon, 25 Aug 2008 Q: I have been married for 5 years and have a 2 year old child. I have a very happy married life otherwise. I come from a much protected family where I have an older brother and parents taking care of me all the time, especially emotionally. My family is also very expressive and outspoken, [...]
  • Boyfriend Trying to Convince Me I’ve Been Sexually Abused
    Mon, 25 Aug 2008 Q: I’m a 31 year old female from California. I am so confused at the moment. I have a long distance boyfriend, and we talk every day on the phone. I just adore him, but I have to admit he has been very verbally abusive with me at times. About a year ago, he just [...]
  • Subliminal Messages During Surgery
    Fri, 22 Aug 2008 Q: I was wondering if anybody had done any studies about subliminal messages during surgery? I have to undergo a shoulder replacement surgery and I want to make a recording or hire someone to talk to me while I am under anesthesia until I wake up and have them tell me things like instead of feeling [...]
  • Abusive on a Camping Trip. What Can I Do to Fix It?
    Thu, 21 Aug 2008 Q: I was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) a little over 6 months ago. I recently went into a manic episode. The doctors I have spoken to don’t think I am full-on bipolar, but that is all that can explain the episode. During the episode I said hurtful things and made ridiculous requests. I [...]
  • Will 3 Months in Another Country Harm a 3 Year-Old?
    Thu, 21 Aug 2008 Q: How long can a three year old be separated from her parents without causing problems? Two weeks? Two months? Our daughter-in-law wants to send our granddaughter to stay with her parents in Brazil for up to three months to get to know her side of the family while she and our son get settled [...]
  • Will I Ever Be Happy?
    Thu, 21 Aug 2008 Q: I know I suffer from depression. Being on medication the last 18 months I feel on and off. Will I ever be happy? I grew up without my mother and had an abusive stepmother instead. My dad worked long hours and was occasionally around. This made me feel rejected, unloved and not worthy. Today [...]
  • What Can You Tell Me About An Experimental Drug Called Invega?
    Wed, 20 Aug 2008 Q: What can you tell me about an experimental drug called Invega? Envega? A: I can start off by telling you Invega is no longer “experimental”. In the United States, Invega has been approved for the treatment of Schizophrenia. While I’m not a physician or psychopharmacologist, I can give you some information about this new [...]
  • I Suffer from Obsessive Thoughts that Last Months or Years
    Wed, 20 Aug 2008 Q: I am hoping with your experience you can help me. I suffer with “obsessions”, one thought that will stay with me almost the entire time I am awake. They can go on for months, sometimes years. They can vary but usually don’t really involve something I am really worried about. I start out worried [...]
  • Teen Seeking Help for 48 Year-Old Aunt
    Wed, 20 Aug 2008 A: I’m 17 years old, and I really need your help. Well, my family and I need your help. My aunt is 48 years old and her life is a mess. It began when she was 30 with her divorce and an unexpected pregnancy. I wasn’t there when she got divorced but just seeing pictures of [...]
  • It’s Hard to Visit My Dying Mother
    Tue, 19 Aug 2008 Q: My mother is dying as a result of a stroke 6 months ago. I have spent a great deal of time with her over that span and don’t want to go see her anymore. She is not the woman I knew and no longer responds to us. I know hearing is the last thing [...]
  • I’m 26 and Have No Dedication or Force of Will
    Tue, 19 Aug 2008 Q: I am 26, and I realized that at this present moment I am not accomplished, and I am losing the possibility of becoming it. Furthermore, I realized this long ago, and I keep on “realizing” it, feeling bad about it, and I just seem not to have enough responsibility, dedication or force of will [...]

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Book Reviews

  • Helping Adolescents at Risk: Prevention of Multiple Problem Behaviors
    Tue, 13 May 2008
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    This is a rigorous scholarly text dedicated to a very real social problem, and it does try to identify successful and unsuccessful community and state-wide attempts to prevent or reduce youth problems. It doesn't pretend to be a self-help book or parenting manual, or indeed a profound philosophical or political analysis.
  • Berg and Szabo on Brief Coaching
    Tue, 06 May 2008
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    This book is a good ready-to-go manual for the new or busy coach looking for new ideas or reinforcement of practice enthusiasm. Whether it lives up to its promise of providing lasting solutions is something that only time and longitudinal research studies can tell.
  • Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology
    Thu, 01 May 2008
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    At a time when Complementary and Alternative Therapies have (again) been under fire from some university scientists for falsely claiming scientific status, and in an era of evidence-based psychotherapy, this book is a key text. It should have a place on all postgraduate counselling and psychotherapy courses, but I suspect it will not be so readily accommodated.

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