‘Depression’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 82

Q: I suppose this is a question with multiple facets to it.
Can a 3-year-old child be suicidal? The parent is insisting the child is suicidal due to the child’s father’s illness which included a 6 week coma of the father — doctors not allowing the child to see its father during this time period. Do [...]

Q: I’m a 47-year-old woman, and yet, I feel like I don’t know who I am. My question is this: Where does one begin when they have no clue as to what they want or where they belong?

A: All of us have identifiers — age, marital status, employment, nationality, etc. We also define who we [...]

Q: Hi, firstly let me just say how brilliant it is that you provide this facility and how informative your website is — thank you.
My question: Last year I was diagnosed with major depression and given fluoxetine. Initially 20mg, then 40mg and after 3 months 60mg — the reason for the increase was the symptoms [...]

Q. My boyfriend has been suffering from bouts of extreme apathy. It seems to come in cycles of 3 months. Everything will be great for a while, he will be optimistic about his future and content with his current situation, and then seemingly out of nowhere, he becomes detached from everything, he talks about how [...]

Q. I am a married 30-something with two young children. My problem is with my parents. Shortly after I married, my succesful father retired from law and he and my mother moved to a rather rural city from where my mother’s family lives. Since then, my mother has taken up smoking and heavy drinking, and [...]