‘Drug Abuse’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 9

Q: I am taking Effexor 150 mgs daily. In the long past I very much enjoyed an experience on magic mushrooms, ‘gold tops’. I would like to repeat this experience with a repeat of a very small amount of the fungi. What do you think of this?
Please do not say you must not do [...]

Q: How do you get someone with Histrionic Personality Disorder traits to get help or to recognize the disorder without making it worse?
I have been doing a lot of reading on the subject and have become rather apathetic about the prospect of my sister ever getting help. Most of what I have read about the [...]

Q: My parter has a history of heroin addiction and is bipolar. He has used twice in the past year. At first, I mistook his symptoms for mania only later to find that he had used. Lately, I have noticed a few things and I can’t determine if he is high, or manic. Heroin doesn’t [...]

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 [...]