Dr Joseph M Carver, PhD’s Replies at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist

Q: I recently found that I have mostly likely been dealing with the effects of Asperger’s Syndrome for the last 20 years or so. Not knowing exactly what it was until within the last year, I have learned to adapt to and deal with most of the negative side effects. While I have for the [...]

Q: I’m a freshman, and there’s just so much depression surrounding me. You see, my best friend used to cut her wrists, and I fear she’s reverted back to old habits. She refuses to talk to me about it, and I get that it might be a tough subject, but she shuts me out completely. [...]

Q: I’m a 20-year-old college student and have been hiding the fact that I have had imaginary friends my entire life. As a kid it’s okay — people expect it even. But I find that I spend more time talking to them and leaning on them for support than I do my “real” friends; it’s [...]

Q: I just read the question and answer about a mother enmeshed man. I was interested in your response here because I have been dating a man for almost 15 months that also lives with his mother. He has been divorced for almost three years. His mother is in fairly good health and does not [...]

Q: After a five-year marriage and a string of de facto relationships, I’ve decided I’m not marriage material. I’ve actually been explicitly told so — more than once! I’m simply not cut out for it, at least not in the sense of “happily ever after” stories. It is not the challenge of cohabiting with another, [...]