The following questions are related to ‘Self Awareness’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.
Q: I am a 25-year-old male from India. I have a problem because I really don’t understand my behavior.
About three years back I met a guy, and we became fast friends. We would not spend a day without seeing each other. We shared everything with each other about our pasts and became quite close. I [...]
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 [...]
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