‘Self Awareness’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist

Q: I hope you can help me. I think I am in a relationship with no future but am not sure and need an outside opinion.
I have been with my partner for a little over a year, although we’ve known each other since I was a child. He’s 10 years older than I, and we [...]

Q: I am seventeen years old, and I keep making up lies that my adoptive mom is abusing me. I have been making up lies for the past four years because I think that is the only way the person is going to want to talk to me. I am really scared of people leaving [...]

Q: I have found your website is to be unique source of wisdom on the blight of manipulative people. But there is a potential manipulator’s “defense” that has had me confused for some time.
In any relationship, particularly a partnership, if one party does something the other finds completely unacceptable (overstepping their personal boundaries or violating [...]

Q: I am a 19-year-old male. In the past couple of months I have developed a weird behavior: when I hear a beautiful, touching story, whether true or not, or listen to very emotional and expressive music, I increasingly often feel like I have to cry. I know I can control the urge, but the [...]

Q: I’m a guy and have a girlfriend who is 20 years old. We met about four months ago and became very close friends. Her mother and brother, who is one year older, are both bipolar. She just had her first child three weeks ago. She has been through a lot in her young life [...]