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Q: I’m very worried about my friend and co-worker. She is 28 and has recently begun to behave very strangely. My friend says that mysterious people are trying to harm her and trying to videotape her while…
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Q: I find that sometimes when I am in a group of people or even by myself, I start talking to myself. I know that I talked to myself a lot when I was a child, and as I got older, I think that I have gotten better about doing it. But today my mother [...]
Q: I have not been diagnosed with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), but I keep reading where people with OCD worry about things that are trivial or not real, and that certainly applies to me.
My obsessions stem from my relationship. I obsess over the compliments my boyfriend gives me. I am obsessed with being the “most [...]
Q: I am 23 years old and have been having some trouble. I realized about a year ago that my childhood was an abusive one. My father physically and verbally abused my brothers and me and is a pathological liar. He was abusive to my mother too, although I don’t recall it ever getting physical [...]
Q: I am 24, and met a 21-year-old girl just over a year ago. I have come to really love her, and she really likes me. Here’s the problem: my girlfriend has never felt any true romantic feelings for anyone in her life. It’s as if she’s just missing that part of her emotional chemistry. [...]
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