“Ask Dr Neuman” Advice Column
Q: I have had debilitating health anxiety since childhood (currently 48yrs. old). I’ve been on nearly every medicine, years of therapy,,, etc. Am disillusioned at the thought of sitting in another therapists office and talking week after week without any plan to help...
Q: I have been suffering from social anxiety for about seventeen years. Through the years I have lost many friends and avoided many social events due to this. However for the past two years it has been extremely difficult to hold unto my job? Last year I was so...
Q: My doctor thinks i am paranoid. He has asked me to go on anti psychotic medication (risperdal+cogentin) but i think he is wrong. I am biploar and suffer from anxiety and depression. My family thinks he is right but they just dont understand what im going through....
Q: I am 30, with a good job, a lot of friends.However, on a personal field I am very insecure ( fear of rejection?). I tend to play ”hard to get”, being sometimes not really encouraging and cynical. Of course, guys give up at a time, and I always have a good excuse...
Q: I read your article on “Dating: How Far Can I Go To Encourage a Relationship without seeming desperate?” and had to see your opinion on a situation. I’ve had an infatuation with this guy I know for almost 6 years. We were both 18 and 19 at the time when we first...
Q: I am in my 40s and have an intense fear of driving. (I have no fear of being a passenger.) I have never held a driver’s license and drove only a couple of times with a learner’s permit, more than 20 years ago. Part of my problem stems from difficulty interpreting...
Q: Dr Neuman What do you think is going on with me? I was diagnosed with panic disorder early this year and have sought therapy to help me deal with it. For a while the therapy seemed to be working – I dont avoid any places, I fly, I go to work, etc – but I have a...
Q: I suffer from severe anxiety,and the internet is becoming the latest source of some of my panic attacks.. When I was in junior high school (ages 13-14) I posted a lot of silly things on there, some of which I absolutely cannot delete because I’ve lost access to old...
Q: What is the psychological/medical term to describe someone who is overly concerned what others think of them? - Scott J. A: That problem is often part of a social anxiety, or, for that matter, other phobic states. I do not know if there is a name for that precise...
Wow. This is worse than the chicken phobia question. At least I heard of chickens before. I thought at first that you were talking about someone who was afraid of flying cranes (birds). That would be unusual. Most bird phobics are afraid of birds that are sitting on...
Q: “What both men and women try to do during these first meetings is to convey something of themselves. They want the other person to see that idealized version of themselves that they themselves see.”That actually seems to explain quite a lot of the difficulty I have...
Q: Would appreciate some perspective on this Doctor. I (male) have been very hairy since teenage, am 37 now. Single, dating on and off. To cut a long and banal story short and get to the point, I find it unsatisfying to be intimate without properly shaving at least my...