Q: My 15 year old son is currently undergoing assessment for Aspergers, and 80% of what I see fits the diagnosis — except that he has very recently started to mention mild delusions or hallucinations of a type. Can this be due to him trying to figure out why he is so different?
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Q: My name is David, and I’m 16 years old. I’m sending this e-mail to know what kind of mental illness or disorder(s) I have. These are my symptoms:
I’m disconnected from my emotions; I don’t feel many, but I’m bored by everything around me;
I feel like I’m somehow better than the others, especially by my [...]
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Q: I am a third year college Mass Communication student in the Phillippines and am doing an Investigative research on exorcism. Part of this is to deeply explore “possession” as its main root. For my questions, is possession merely a case of psychological illness? Is it all about a person’s mental state and there is [...]
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Q: Some time ago I was diagnosed with Paranoid Personality Disorder (the primary characteristic being a psychotic sense of thought projection). I’ve had thoughts of a certain person poisoning the food, etc. (because I feel I perceive their true motive). On occasion, I’ve felt as Jim Carrey would on ‘The Truman Show’ — that my [...]
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Q: What would you say to someone that has had their brainwave watched for as long as that person has been living and has to listen to those people stating the most extreme and stupid things? That same person knows that everywhere he goes there are people taking peoples’ pictures all around his physical person.
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