‘Paranoia’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 10

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: What do you call a person that is constantly thinking that you took something from them. Is it a disorder?

A: There’s not a lot of information in your question. Took what — money, lawnmower, food, drugs, etc.? What age is the individual? What’s your relationship to them? Have you taken something from them in [...]

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 [...]

Q: At 27, my sister has graduated college and has her degree. She doesn’t have and will not get a job. She continues to wait to be contacted by a company she has an application in with. She is very upset with someone there saying that while they worked together (when my sister was an [...]

Q: Um… I don’t quite know how to put this… I’ve been a pretty messed up person throughout my life. I’ve been in and out of hospitals and been through more therapists than I can remember. I want to know. I hear things sometimes, when it’s really quiet… I see things as well…and not really [...]