The following questions are related to ‘PTSD’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
Q: I’m 23 years old and have been suffering from this condition for about a year now. I cannot eat with people around on a table without feeling the urge to vomit. I’ve had similar symptoms in my earlier years but during the last several months it has become unbearable…
First it was only when new [...]
Q: To make a long story short: about 7 years ago my dad and his girlfriend of about 5 years got into a fight and he killed her. I am twenty one now and I am afraid to go to sleep at night because I see her in my room. Even if I am not [...]
Q: I found your information about emotional memory while trying to understand why I weep uncontrollably when I talk to a mental health practitioner. I spent my entire life, from age four, in therapy (and having behaviors pathologized by my family — behaviors I now realize were normal childhood behaviors). I believe I have been [...]
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 fiancée and I have agreed to go to counseling. He told me a year ago he was abused sexually as a child and since he confided in me our relationship has been awful. He has control issues and is super hyper-vigilant about what he deems a threat from me, usually resulting in him [...]
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