“Ask Dr. Neuman”

Q: Dearest Dr. Neuman. I suffer from severe OCD directly linked to a fear of losing my job. I am a writer and will check my work over and over and over again to make sure I remembered to include an a or an or wrote hiring instead of hire or consult instead of...

Q: Happy New Year Doctor !! I can’t thank you enough for your continued support to us advice seekers. This time I request your inputs on a weight loss undertaking. I have lost upto 20 – 25 kgs in the last 2 – 3 years. I am stuck at the last 6 – 8. I am planning to...

Q: Hello Doctor, wanted your inputs on a matter of the heart. I have been in a relationship with a handsome young man for around two months. Trouble is he has moved to a different state a month ago. Of course he is very busy and now he has roommates and all that. Our...

Q: I’ve been feeling extremely lonely, demotivated and numb for about two and a half years. I’ve struggled with anxiety for as long as I remember, but it’s never bothered me like it has been lately. I have a deep sense of unworthiness. I’ve been going to college the...

Q: I’m sorry if this question is dumb or difficult to follow. I have had thoughts of suicide since I was a teenager and I’m now 32. I’m so used to them that they are almost normal to me and I understand that there are times when the thoughts are intense and times when...

Q: Hi, Mr Neuman I have recently been having sexual thoughts that I cant get out of my head. I am very scared that I may act upon them when I wake up it is the forst thing in my mind and the last thing when I sleep. It feels liek torture. I thnk it might be POCD; but...

Dear Doctor,I have been following your blog for months now and am happy to report your advice has paid off!! Being a single woman in my mid thirties, I finally learned to be less cynical and more forthcoming and now find myself, unbelievably !! dating a very handsome...

Q: My wife and I are separated after 20 years of marriage and we are contemplating getting back together.& 22 years together. She and I would both like to reconcile our relationship. She wants me to date and court her. I would like to do that, but how do you start...

Q: Dr. Neuman, I have been an introvert all of my life, social anxiety is the diagnosis with chronic major depressive disorder. I am disabled from this condition, and I have lost faith in the current system for providing therapy and pharmacotherapy to alleviate my...

Q: Hi, I am having a tough year. I lost two of my closest girlfriends this year because I couldn’t accept their decisions to stay with their abusive partners. I have regretted my decision to end the friendships because my love life hasn’t been perfect. I never stay in...

Q: I believe I am doomed to be alone. I have been married twice, right now I am single. The issue is, I am picky. I don’t believe it’s being picky, I believe it’s being rational. I know I won’t be in a successful relationship with someone that is not college educated;...

Q: Dear doctor. …have a tough one for you…sorry. I am a single gay man in his late thirties. It’s hard enough for men and women to find partners..what am I to do. I don’t live in a very open city..plus all the men I meet are only intrested in one time sex or an...