‘Medications’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist

Q: I am a young male, and I have been diagnosed with HOCD. I have just a few questions:

It has gotten extremely bad lately and to the point where I worry my brain might be convinced that I am actually attracted to males. Is that possible? Can an obsession get that bad? If so, what [...]

Q: I am writing to get some advice about my Mom. She is a very big-hearted woman, but she has some really serious psychological issues and really needs help.
My mom is absolutely terrified of being judged. She has very high anxiety and stress, and over the last 2 years she has “lost her voice” and [...]

Q: I am suffering from a problem I will call a “bad habit.” Whenever I go to a shopping mall, I try to steal something. I have actually stolen some things. I know this is wrong, but I cannot seem to control myself. It’s a real problem, and I don’t like it. So please tell [...]

Q: My daughter is a freshman at our local college and currently living in a student apartment. Up until last year she had never been in serious trouble of any kind, but she met a boy who was not in the same intellectual circle as she, and things went downhill from there.
During her last year [...]

Q: I am a single dad with two children. It wasn’t always that way, but their mother simply can’t deal with them. She only has them 4 days per month but still seems to have difficulty handling them because they stress her out so much.
I started seeing the children’s mother 12 years ago. We had [...]