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

Q: I am a 27-year-old woman truly, madly, and deeply in love with a 24-year-old man. When we met, I never thought our relationship would go anywhere because of cultural and age differences. But day by day we are more compatible than we thought, and we have now been together 4 months. We almost have [...]

Q: I was only three years old when my mother and father divorced. My father is now deceased. My mom didn’t date much after the divorce. She now blames me for still being single. When I was younger, I was unhappy when she dated, and now I have a busy soccer travel schedule, so I’m [...]

Q: When a sociopath tells a lie, do they know it’s a lie or do they believe the lie?

A: A Sociopath, also known as an Antisocial Personality Disorder, is a member of a diagnostic group known as ‘Personality Disorders‘ (see my introduction to personality disorders on this website). Without question, an Antisocial Personality is well [...]

Q: Seven months ago my husband and I miscarried an unplanned pregnancy. It was a life-changing experience for me in that I really found out what it was I wanted to do with my life. I want to be a mom again. My husband doesn’t feel that way. I am 42, and I feel stuck. [...]

Q: My boyfriend suffers from low self esteem and sometimes depression. It really worries me that he constantly fears that I’m going to leave him. We’ve been together for six months now, and I love him to death. I keep telling him that, that I love him, and he keeps making me promise I won’t [...]