‘Drug Abuse’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 4

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: I’m a twenty-year-old male, and I have a problem. Every time I get a paycheck or have a decent amount of money I immediately start to do drugs and lie to my family. I don’t always behave like that. I only do it when I’m alone and I have any cash in my pocket. [...]

Q: I must be feeling desperate to go online and ask this question, but here goes. I actually had to leave my house tonight to get away. My 18-year-old daughter seems to run our lives. She is disrespectful and refuses to abide by any rules. This has actually been going on for a few years [...]

Q: I need some information about psychiatric illnesses. I am 29 and have gone through substance abuse treatment and have been clean and sober for over 2 years now. I have a brother who is 33 who I thought was also alcoholic, but now I’m coming to believe he is schizophrenic.
My brother claims people [...]