‘Social Skills’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 28

Q: I suffer from situational shyness and I’m also bipolar. My bipolar is currently stabilized with carbamazepine and Paxil. I have always been shy to a certain degree but have worked very hard to overcome this stumbling block. When I was in high school I would actually become almost mute due to my anxiety. However, [...]

Q: I am a college girl. I went for a vacation 7 days ago. My friend’s mom is my life. I love her so much. She is my 1 best friend I knowwwwww it. I know I have particular space in her heart. But during vacation she avoided me and was always with her best [...]

Q: I wonder if at 28, it’s too little, too late to receive help/treatment? In my case, I have Asperger’s, which caused me to develop severe depression and schizoid personality, along with serious emotional & social skills deficits.
So, I have missed out on all the childhood events, experiences, learning & developmental phases, stages of academic [...]

Q: Hi there! I have a question about, well, myself. I recently wrote a letter to a different psychologist, asking why I kept attracting needy people into my life. I tend to meet people who have a wide variety of psychological problems, and who call me and keep me on the phone for hours moaning [...]

Q: I wanted to know about severe social anxiety. I had it in college, and I still continue to have problems. I don’t know where to look when talking to people. I don’t know how fast or where to walk in the mall. It’s getting to the point where I don’t really want to go [...]