‘Bipolar’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 2

Q: I am 68 years old. All my life I have been unable to forget the past. I don’t mean I have some “savant”-like talent for remembering minute details. It’s just that I recall, with much melancholy, my past history, reliving various aspects of it whenever I encounter a familiar smell or a certain stimulus. [...]

Q: I’m from Europe and I experienced some real problems after returning from my vacation in New York City. I had been smoking “weed”, but I think it might have been laced with PCP (phencyclidine) or something because I ended up in a mental hospital being treated for what the doctors thought was an unspecified [...]

Q: I’m a 19-year-old male and I’ve been going through the hardest times of my life. The problem is that my mind is active 24/7, and I find myself thinking of questions like “What is time?,” “What is the present?,” “What is ego?,” and “Who am I?”. I wonder things like how I can control [...]

Q: Recently, my husband and I visited my my husband’s parents and told them that because of unexplained infertility, we were going to adopt a child. My mother-in-law flew off the handle. She lost a baby 45 years ago, and when we tried to reason with her, she wouldn’t listen and challenged us to walk [...]

Q: I have always wondered what it is that makes me different from everyone around me. I have been diagnosed with several conditions, including Bipolar Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, and Attention Deficit Disorder. I have researched Autism and Asperger’s online, and although I don’t believe I am autistic, I have noticed that I have some [...]