The following questions are related to ‘Personality Disorders’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
Q: I am being stalked on the internet by a loser. I own a turn base game site with a forum, and kicked this loser out of it for attacking other players verbally and being verbally abusive and threatening to me after I repeatedly warned him to stop. He then joined a site group at [...]
Q: I read one of the featured articles “Dating a Loser” and I think I am one — a loser. Not every indicator describes how I am, but most do. Would the “loser” personality also be called (clinically) borderline? If so, there is no “cure” for this, right?
A: The Loser article is based on the [...]
Q: I am a 50-year-old, recovering alcoholic (21 years of sobriety), and am having an absolutely terrible time eliminating self-doubt and guilt about my relationship with my mother. She fits your descriptions of an abusive personality. She has rageful outbursts whenever I exercise independence (e.g., buying a car, a house, being sad or in a [...]
Q: I’ll call my girlfriend of four months, Coralie. We are about 40. Coralie was abused and tortured as a child, and raped as a young woman. In her younger days she was/is a thrill-seeker, race car driver, skydiver, etc. Her father, whom she loved very much, died a horrible death when she was about [...]
Q: I know it is common for people not to get on with their Mother-in-Law, but I believe mine to be a spiteful, hate-filled, manipulative, evil bully of a woman, but to my wife, she makes out to be a victim, with the world against her and my wife is so under the thumb, that [...]
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