I’m so sorry to hear you’re having such a shitty time with your current therapist. As a psychologist, my professional opinion is you should DTMFA. You want a therapist who listens to you, who empathises and who remembers you from week to week. That shouldn’t be too much to ask, but sadly there are a lot of dreadful…

I wonder if it’s possible for you to bring up the topic with him in a way that doesn’t make him feel defensive? How does he react if you say something like “I noticed you’ve lost some weight recently, is everything going okay for you?” Nice and general, non-directive. I like the suggestions of the mini-fridge and…

The English Garden or Hofgarten in Munich are beautiful places to sit around reading a book, go swimming in the river or people watch. Generally if you chose to sit in a cafe (even the chains like Rischart have excellent pastries) people are polite enough to leave you alone. So sit with your book in a sidewalk cafe…

So, I live in a part of the world where hot dogs are not a common foodstuff - I’ve heard of them, seen them, but the words “hot” and “dog” next to each other make me think of my cute pup in the summer.

The band System of a Down are also Armenian American and I remember they used to discuss the genocide pretty regularly. However, they’re not exactly on the same celebrity scale as the Kardashians!

There’s a word for it in German - Backpfeifengesicht. A face that is begging to be hit.

I was on the pill from 16 to 27, at which point I moved to the UK, where they won’t prescribe the Pill for women with mild heart conditions. I originally went on the Pill to deal with mood swings, so I was pleasantly surprised when they didn’t recur off the Pill. I didn’t expect or appreciate the acne on my chest and…

PMDD is horrendous, my heart goes out to you. I hope you feel better soon.

I need to know more.

Dating as a therapist is SO HARD. I tend to set firm boundaries quite early on, naming the emotional dumping when it’s happening and making a joke of it - if they’re not paying me, I’m not therapising them.

pls share your Crazy Bitch playlist on Spotify, kthxbai

Is the relationship good in other ways?

Evidence suggests that there's about an 8pc success rate for AA, so science is on your side. It's understandable that you're disappointed at your friend's relapse, it's hard to think of it as being outside of her control, like a relapse of depression.

I had my wisdom teeth out a few years ago under general anaesthetic and I was completely terrified. Like you, the idea of being out of control scared me, and after a few bad experiences with doctors I didn't trust them an inch. Every time I thought of it, from the date my dentist set the appointment to the day OF the…

That's incredibly disingenuous. The pro-gun activists mentioned in this article are not Olympic target shooters.

YES. Too many people here are confusing different types of CF, which is completely meaningless. I'm from Ireland, where 1 in 19 people carry a CF gene. It has the highest CF rate in the world, and people tend to die before the age of 25. Treatments are getting better, but the cases tend to still be quite severe.

This is an interesting issue that came up in my personal life because I have Asperger's Syndrome. That is a neurological disorder, sort of autism at the high-end of the functioning scale. It affects mostly males, last I read was something like ninety to ninety-five percent of those with AS are male.

Sorry to hear that :( Bodies do weird things sometimes.

Let me know if I'm way out of line, but is there any chance you have hypothyroidism? Up to 1 in 8 women have it, and one of the signs is this:

Doulas get a lot of stick, but I just wanted to say that it sounds like you'll be doing great work. In my therapy practice I've seen many women with PTSD following traumatic birth experiences, and traumatic birth experiences are also one of the major risk factors for postpartum depression, postpartum psychosis and…