The following questions are related to ‘Anxiety and Stress’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
Q: My partner suffers from panic attacks and anxiety. He has been seeing the same therapist now for the last 7 years, but it seems he hasn’t moved forward with his problems.
Although I am sympathetic to his problems, I feel (as does he) that his therapy has stalled and the counselor he’s been seeing isn’t [...]
Q: I’m 20 years old, and for the past 8 months I’ve been having some really upsetting obsessive thoughts and it’s driving me crazy. I started having random thoughts that I might be gay even though I know that’s not true. Then I started to think maybe it wasn’t that I was gay but rather [...]
Q: I have rarely been able to defend myself verbally. As I approach 64 years of age I find it even more difficult to find the words I need, even when the words are quite ordinary. It’s not that I have a poor memory (I score 99+ percentile in memory), nor poor vocabulary (I score [...]
Q: I’m a 25-year-old male originally from India but born and raised in Dubai.
I’ve always been kind of an introvert. I had a conservative Muslim upbringing and went to an all boys school and generally was and am very quiet and keep to myself. I’ve never felt comfortable socially.
About 4 years ago, a friend [...]
Q: I am a 15-year-old male. I’ve just been thinking about some things I do and decided to ask somebody who knows about such things whether I have a problem or not.
Sometimes, I sort of scrape my index finger along the edge of something like a desk, and then I feel as if I must [...]
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