‘Abuse and Trauma’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 3

Q: About two years ago I was violently sexually assaulted by two men who broke into my home in the middle of the night with a gun. I had to wait until this past May for the trial. The DA ended up pleading one of the guys out to 5 years with no mention of [...]

Q: My husband has had trust issues with women from about the age of 16. He thinks the worst of all situations. He has a bottle of water by his bed that he leaves out at night, but he will not drink from it because he fears I might have put something in it to [...]

Q: I am 28 years old and have an abusive father. He has had anger management issues for as long as I can remember and has been extremely controlling of my mother and me. His outbursts have typically been limited to destruction of physical property, but he has on occasion been physical with my mother [...]

Q: I am in desperate need of some professional advice. I have been dating my boyfriend for a year. We have had many arguments. He has made me suffer many times. He is 30 years old. His parents divorced when he was 18, and his brother has looked after him since the the divorce.
Would like [...]

Q: A few weeks ago, I got out of an emotionally abusive relationship. My ex-boyfriend was a very manipulative person. Actually, by reading your articles, I learned about many of the tactics he’d been using on me that I wasn’t aware of at the time.
Most of the things I said or did were never good [...]