‘Panic’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 5

Q: I experienced trauma as a child (violent abuse, neglect, homelessness, and more). To survive emotionally, I have buried the past and divorced myself from reminders of it, including family.
I tried twice in my 30s to revisit the old issues. Emotions took over both times and I started having flashbacks, terror, depression, and paranoia. [...]

Q: I suffer from Major Depression, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). My question is I often walk leaning to one side if I come under any kind of stress or within a foot of another individual. This happens even with people I really like and trust. In hallways [...]

Q: I am a first time mother of 5 month old twin boys. I felt a bit depressed after their birth but that has since gone away. I think that I am a good mother and I care for my children very well. However, I do have a few concerns and would like to know [...]

Q: What are these moods I’m experiencing? I can be fine for weeks or even months at a time acting as my normal self, just very much an introvert (that’s normal for me) but then all of a sudden something will happen or set me off. I’ll get really angry over something, so bad that [...]

Q: I have been experiencing very strange feelings and the episodes are getting more frequent. It is like suddenly I am not here or I am suddendly in a dream and I am watching myself and my thoughts are seeing some other time or place. I get an awful feeling in my stomach and in [...]