Q: My husband is so sweet and loving but has some severe issues with paranoia. He was raped by his teenage brother for a year when he was 5; the abuse involved bullying, lying and demands of secrets and constant threats. Even worse, when my husband was in his 20s he actually worked in the [...]
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Q: I will try to be as brief as I can. I have barely tolerated depression for pretty much all my adult life (I will be 45 in two weeks), although looking back, it began prior to puberty. I am the third of four children and the youngest boy. To cut a long story short, [...]
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Q: I’m 24yrs old and married. I’m a women that’s having problems in my marriage because of my past. I’ve been abused by my parents, especially my dad who always used to beat me, and I’m the middle child that’s always picked on. Over the years it’s made me very hard-hearted, full of hatred, stubborn [...]
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Q: I am a 46 year old woman, who was diagnosed with breast cancer two years ago. Three days prior to my first scheduled chemotherapy treatment, my “significant other” of over 10 years disappeared and subsequently left me to shoulder the burden of the disease and raising two boys (11 and 4) alone. By the [...]
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Q: I have been diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and am wondering what if any overlap exists between “emotional memory” and DID. It seems to me that the overwhelming situations which cause the psyche to split in the first place find their roots in areas of hugely disconcerting “emotional memory.” Then, as the person [...]
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