The following questions are related to ‘Neurotransmitter’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
Q: I have had a problem for several months now. Ever since I was a pre-teenager, I’ve known that my mind has a lot of control over my body. For example, when I was younger, I had a fear of getting appendicitis, and this fear would often make me feel as if my stomach was [...]
Q: I know that this question will sound crazy but I have to ask. I have experienced rare moments when I might be talking to someone at work and all of a sudden I find myself thinking about just punching the person in the face or throwing coffee in their face as I am talking [...]
Q: To have a better understanding of my problem I would like to tell you a bit about myself. I am 25, from one of the CIS countries. As a kid and teenager I was very brave, hardworking and purposeful. At the age of 15 I won an exchange program scholarship and studied a year [...]
Q: My husband stopped taking Effexor for depression about 2 months ago. He becomes agitated very easily and now thinks I want to kill him. I do not physically abuse my husband. It scares me that he thinks this. Am I safe?
A: There are several issues in this brief question. First, Effexor is an SNRI [...]
Q: To the outside world, my son is friendly, outgoing, polite, kind, and considerate. He can be this way at home, too, unless something doesn’t go his way or he feels he is being treated unfairly. If this happens, he has angry and frightening verbal outbursts that seem out of his control. When he recovers, [...]
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