The following questions are related to ‘Anxiety and Stress’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
Q: I’ve had a problem that’s been going on for two years. I feel like my heart is racing and like I hear every beat of my heart. It’s not constant — it comes and goes, usually once I am at home and have attempted to relax. It got so bad at one point that [...]
Q: I am a married woman with three children who are aged 10 to 13. As a family we have been under a lot of stress lately due to illness, financial hardship, work-related stress, and relationship difficulties. Alcohol abuse has compounded the problem. My daughter is seeing a therapist at school. I suffered a depressive [...]
Q: I have a very big problem. I can’t sit in a group and have a normal conversation. If I start saying something, even something very normal, my facial expressions change, and my face turns red! And if someone says something about me, even something quite normal, then the same thing happens.
I can’t even share [...]
Q: I am a 15-year-old boy who came to the U.S. about 3 years ago. When I first came here, I was one of the students who participated the most. I would talk, share, and not care too much what anyone thought about me. However, when I started 9th grade, I was thrown into classes [...]
Q: I have read articles and posts about children who rock. But I haven’t found much about adults who rock.
Unless I am engaged in doing something, I rock. I do this everywhere. Ninety percent of the time, I do not even realize I have begun rocking until I catch someone who has observed me doing [...]
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